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The Kent and Dollar Farm massacres was one of the earliest massacres of Sinhalese civilians carried out by the LTTE during the Sri Lankan Civil War . The massacres took place on November 30 1984 , in two tiny farming villages in the district of Mullaitivu in north-eastern Sri Lanka. The LTTE had claimed that the North East of Sri Lanka was the exclusive homeland of Tamils , and began their campaign of ethnic cleansing in the 1980 's. The Sinhalese and Muslim communities of the Northern Province and Eastern Province of Sri Lanka suffered severe loss of lives and property as a result of numerous Civilian Massacres Carried Out By The LTTE for the purpose of ethnically cleansing the North East of Sri Lanka . NUMBER OF CASUALTIES At Dollar farm, 33 Sinhalese were murdered and several others were injured in the shooting carried out by the cadres of LTTE. On the same day at '''Kent farm''', another 29 Sinhalese civilians were massacred, thus increasing the total death toll to 62. Among the civilian casualties were men, women and children. The LTTE operatives used Submachine Gun s, Automatic Rifle s and hand Grenades to kill civilians. Survivors also reported that LTTE cadres had killed children by bashing their heads against walls. RELATED INCIDENTS children who were killed by LTTE ]] Some of the related LTTE attacks on civilians between 1984 and 2006 include the
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