Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Jaffna hospital massacre occurred on October 21 and 22, 1987 during the Sri Lankan Civil War, when soldiers of the Indian Army entered the premises of the Jaffna Teaching Hospital in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, an island nation in South Asia, and killed between 60 and 70 patients and staff. The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the government of Sri Lanka, and independent observers such as the University Teachers for Human Rights and others have called it a massacre of civilians. However, Indian Army maintains that the soldiers were fired upon and the Indian army officer in charge of the military operations, Lieutenant General Depinder Singh, claimed that these civilians were killed in a crossfire between the soldiers and the rebels. Soldiers responsible for this massacre were not prosecuted by the Indian government."@en }
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- Jaffna_hospital_massacre abstract "The Jaffna hospital massacre occurred on October 21 and 22, 1987 during the Sri Lankan Civil War, when soldiers of the Indian Army entered the premises of the Jaffna Teaching Hospital in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, an island nation in South Asia, and killed between 60 and 70 patients and staff. The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the government of Sri Lanka, and independent observers such as the University Teachers for Human Rights and others have called it a massacre of civilians. However, Indian Army maintains that the soldiers were fired upon and the Indian army officer in charge of the military operations, Lieutenant General Depinder Singh, claimed that these civilians were killed in a crossfire between the soldiers and the rebels. Soldiers responsible for this massacre were not prosecuted by the Indian government.".