2008 Moratuwa bus bombing

2008 Moratuwa bus bombing
Colombo District highlighted within Sri Lanka
Location	Katubedda, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Date	June 6, 2008 7:35 (UTC+5:30)
Attack type	Claymore bombing
Deaths	23
Injured	80
Perpetrators	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

The 2008 Moratuwa bus bombing was a Claymore bomb (roadside bomb) explosion against a commuter bus carried out on June 6, 2008, in Katubbeda, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, a suburb of Colombo very close to the University of Moratuwa. The bombing killed 23 civilians and injured around 80.^[1]

The Sri Lankan government and Amnesty International blamed the LTTE for the attack. The British foreign ministry and leading human rights organisations had condemned attacks on civilians in Sri Lanka.^[2]

See also

• 2008 Sri Lanka bus bombings

References

• v
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Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009)

Origins

• Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism
• Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism
• Sinhala Only Act
• 1956
• 1958
• Vaddukoddai Resolution
• 1977
• 1981
  • Burning of Jaffna Library
• Black July

Combatants

Sri Lanka	Army (LRRP) Navy Air Force Police Special Task Force Home Guards Attacks on civilians Assassinations
LTTE	Divisions Air Tigers Sea Tigers Black Tigers Attacks in the 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Assassinations Suicide bombings
Other militants (list)	ENDLF ENLF EPRLF EROS PLOTE TELO
India	Indian Peace Keeping Force
Paramilitary groups	EPDP TMVP

Phases

• Eelam War I
• Indian intervention
• Eelam War II
• III
• IV
  • Eastern / Northern theatres

Major battles

• Kokkilai
• Vadamarachchi
• Poomalai
• Pawan
• Jaffna University Helidrop
• Balavegaya
• 1st Elephant Pass
• Pooneryn
• Riviresa
• 1st Mullaitivu
• Weli Oya
• Sath Jaya
• Vavunathivu
• Jayasikurui
• Thandikulam–Omanthai
• 1st Kilinochchi
• Oddusuddan
• A-9 highway
• 2nd Elephant Pass
• Bandaranaike Airport attack
• Point Pedro
• Jaffna
• Thoppigala
• Vidattaltivu
• 2nd Kilinochchi
• 2nd Mullaitivu
• Puthukkudiyirippu

Major events

• Air Lanka Flight 512
• Indo-Sri Lanka Accord
• Expulsions from Northern province
• Assassination of Lalith Athulathmudali
• Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
• Assassination of Ranasinghe Premadasa
• Temple of the Tooth attack
• Lionair Flight 602
• Bandaranaike Airport attack
• Expulsions from Colombo
• 2009 suicide air raid on Colombo

Leaders

Sri Lanka	Military Army Tissa Weeratunga Nalin Seneviratne Hamilton Wanasinghe Cecil Waidyaratne G. H. De Silva Rohan Daluwatte Srilal Weerasooriya L. P. Balagalle Shantha Kottegoda Sarath Fonseka Navy Asoka de Silva H. A. Silva Clancy Fernando D. A. M. R. Samarasekara H. C. A. C. Thisera Daya Sandagiri Wasantha Karannagoda Air Force Dick Perera Andibuduge Fernando Makalandage Gunawardena Oliver Ranasinghe Jayalath Weerakkody Donald Perera Roshan Goonetileke Civilian J. R. Jayewardene Ranasinghe Premadasa Dingiri Banda Wijetunga Chandrika Kumaratunga Mahinda Rajapaksa
LTTE	Militant Velupillai Prabhakaran Pottu Amman Soosai Karuna Amman Political Selvarasa Pathmanathan Anton Balasingham S. P. Thamilselvan
India	Military Harkirat Singh Ashok K. Mehta Kulwant Singh Depinder Singh Dalvir Singh Krishnaswamy Sundarji Civilian R. Venkataraman Rajiv Gandhi V. P. Singh Jyotindra Nath Dixit J. Jayalalithaa M. Karunanidhi Vaiko

Aftermath

• Genocide
  • Films
  • NPC resolution
• LLRC
• Reactions (Protests)
• Remembrance Day
• UN Panel on Accountability
• War crimes
  • Chemical weapons

Related topics

• Casualties
  • Assassinations
  • Massacres
• Child soldiers
• Disappearances
  • Office on Missing Persons
• Human rights
• Popular culture
• Terrorism
  • Non-state
  • State
  • PTA
• Sexual violence
• Sixth Amendment
• Thirteenth Amendment
• 1988 Maldives coup attempt
• 1987–1989 JVP insurrection

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