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A fact from 1989 Valvettiturai massacre appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 December 2008, and was viewed approximately 2,528 times ( disclaimer) ( check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the 1989 Valvettiturai massacre was called "India's My Lai" by the Indian politician George Fernandes? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/December.

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this article is highly biased from the ltte point of view, also just a few reference is given to an article of alleged war crime —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.212.215.194 ( talk) 10:53, 2 August 2009 (UTC) reply

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

• http://www.tamilnation.org/intframe/india/warcrimes/indias_mylai.htm#Location_Map_of_Atrocities
  • In 1989 Valvettiturai massacre on 2011-05-25 05:48:40, 404 Not Found
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-- JeffGBot ( talk) 08:12, 24 June 2011 (UTC) reply