Four Four Bravo ambush
Call sign of a Sri Lankan Army patrol, ambushed by Tamil separatists in 1983 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Four Four Bravo was the call sign of a fifteen-man Sri Lankan Army patrol, deployed in the Jaffna Peninsula on July 23, 1983. The patrol was ambushed and thirteen of its members were killed by the LTTE. This incident sparked the Thirunelveli massacre and the Black July riots and is considered to be the start of the Sri Lankan Civil War.[2]
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Part of Sri Lankan Civil War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Velupillai Prabhakaran Lt. Sellakili †[1] |
Brig J. G. Balthazar, 2nd Lt Vaas Gunawardene † | ||||||
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25 | 15 | ||||||
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1 (Lt. Sellakili) | 1 officer & 12 soldiers died, 2 injured |
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