{
  "name": "LTTE Archive dataset",
  "source": "https://lttearchive.org",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "generated": "2026-09-26T05:05:56.189Z",
  "note": "Only records published in the archive are included. Casualty figures are the lowest and highest figures cited by sources, never averages.",
  "incidents": [
    {
      "id": "gonagala-massacre-1999",
      "title": "Gonagala massacre, Ampara District (1999)",
      "url": "https://lttearchive.org/articles/gonagala-massacre-1999/",
      "date": "1999-09-18",
      "end_date": null,
      "place": "Ampara",
      "district": "Ampara",
      "country": "Sri Lanka",
      "lat": 7.2917,
      "lng": 81.6724,
      "part": "violence-against-civilians",
      "category": "Attacks on Civilians",
      "attack_type": "massacre",
      "victim_communities": [
        "sinhalese"
      ],
      "attribution": "widely-attributed",
      "killed_low": 50,
      "killed_high": 54,
      "injured_low": 4,
      "injured_high": 4,
      "evidence_status": "corroborated",
      "sources": [
        "sundaytimes-1999-09-19-gonagala",
        "frontline-1999-carnage-in-eastern-sri-lanka",
        "amnesty-1999-asa-37-23-99",
        "sundaytimes-1999-10-03-ampara-villagers",
        "hisahasa-blog-2011-gonagala-photos"
      ],
      "casualty_figures": [
        {
          "source": "sundaytimes-1999-09-19-gonagala",
          "killed": 54,
          "killed_max": null,
          "injured": 4,
          "injured_max": null,
          "note": "27 men, 17 women and 10 children; 48 killed in Gonagala and 6 in two neighbouring settlements. At least four people seriously wounded."
        },
        {
          "source": "frontline-1999-carnage-in-eastern-sri-lanka",
          "killed": 50,
          "killed_max": null,
          "injured": null,
          "injured_max": null,
          "note": "46 killed in Gonagala and two in each of two other hamlets."
        },
        {
          "source": "amnesty-1999-asa-37-23-99",
          "killed": null,
          "killed_max": null,
          "injured": null,
          "injured_max": null,
          "note": "“More than 50” Sinhalese civilians killed in three villages."
        }
      ],
      "updated": "2026-09-26"
    }
  ]
}