Terrorist Incidents in Kandy, Sri Lanka

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Recent Events

Event ID Date State Event
63583-128186-325055 6/3/2013 Kandy LTTE brutally hacked to death and shot 33 Buddhist monks, most of them novice monks as young as 8 years old when they were in a bus heading to Kandy city of Central Province.
55475-108804-274795 5/1/2012 Kandy Mylvaganam, a Canadian citizen who previously lived in the US, was arrested by Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers in Toronto and extradited to US in 2009, following his indictment in the Eastern District Court of New York.
42027-80782-201480 1/23/2010 Kandy The two convicts, both Canadian Tamils, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in an undercover sting operation when they attempted to purchase Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAMs), missile launchers, and hundreds of AK-47 automatic rifles at Long Island in New York on August 19, 2006.
40852-78210-192354 11/10/2009 Kandy 45 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres were arrested by the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) for allegedly being involved in terrorist activities in Kandy and detained for questioning, Daily Mirror reported.
40301-77138-188648 10/7/2009 Kandy The Police arrested a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) militant from the Nawalapitiya area of Kandy District, Colombo Page reported on October 7 (today).
39839-76280-185618 9/8/2009 Kandy The Police arrested a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) militant in the Nawalapitiya area of Kandy District, Colombo Page reported on September 7. Police spokesman Senior Inspector General of Police Nimal Mediwaka said the militant, identified as Colombus alias K.Y., had reached the Nawalapitiya area to carry out an assassination on leading personnel in the District.

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Violence Spatial Dimension in 2013 Time-Series Dimension

Listing of All Recorded Events

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District Number of Events
Kandy 38

The original source are newspaper clippings and extracts collected by the South Asian Terrorism Portal.