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List of attacks attributed to the LTTE, 1970s

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 10, 2025
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The following is a list of chronological attacks attributed to the LTTE in 1970s related to the Sri Lankan Civil War. The deadliest attacks for the decade were in 1979.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “List of attacks attributed to the LTTE, 1970s” is open-knowledge reference entry. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through List, attacks and attributed, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, attacks and attributed is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2025. The first chronological checks are 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of attacks attributed to the LTTE, 1970s” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.