A commemoration event was held for the victims of the St James' Church bombings who were killed by Sri Lankan government airstrikes in the early hours of 13 November 1993.
A memorial service was held last Thursday at the church in Gurunagar, Jaffna to mark 32 years since the massacre.
Relatives of the victims lit candles and laid flowers by a memorial plaque dedicated to those who were killed in the attack.
Leading up to and during the 1990s, Sri Lankan air force jets bombed several Tamil protected areas, including schools and places of worship, killing over hundreds of Tamil civilians. The notorious Navaly Church bombings which killed over 120 people in 1995, the 1997 Vavunikulam Church bombings and the 1995 Nagarkovil Tamil school bombings are among the many attacks committed by the Sri Lankan military.
