1989 Temple of the Tooth attack

1989 Temple of the Tooth attack

Jesse Russell Ronald Cohn

     

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ISBN: 978-5-5146-6563-1

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 1989 Temple of the Tooth attack is an attack on the Temple of the Tooth Relic, located in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The shrine, which is considered to be important to the Buddhists in Sri Lanka, houses the relic of the tooth of the Buddha, and is a UNESCO designated World Heritage Site. It was attacked on 8 February 1989, allegedly by the armed cadres affiliated to Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a Marxist-Leninist Communist political party in Sri Lanka.