This is a timeline of incidents in 1987 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).
Guidelines To be included, entries must be notable (have a stand-alone article) and described by a consensus of reliable sources as "terrorism". List entries must comply with the guidelines outlined in the manual of style under MOS:TERRORIST. Casualty figures in this list are the total casualties of the incident including immediate casualties and later casualties (such as people who succumbed to their wounds long after the attacks occurred). Casualties listed are the victims. Perpetrator casualties are listed separately (e.g. x (+y) indicate that x victims and y perpetrators were killed/injured). Casualty totals may be underestimated or unavailable due to a lack of information. A figure with a plus (+) sign indicates that at least that many people have died (e.g. 10+ indicates that at least 10 people have died) – the actual toll could be considerably higher. A figure with a plus (+) sign may also indicate that over that number of people are victims. If casualty figures are 20 or more, they will be shown in bold. In addition, figures for casualties more than 50 will also be underlined. Incidents are limited to one per location per day. If multiple attacks occur in the same place on the same day, they will be merged into a single incident. In addition to the guidelines above, the table also includes the following categories:
List DateTypeDeadInjuredLocationArticleDetailsPerpetratorPart ofApril 17Massacre12764North Central Province, Sri LankaAluth Oya massacre127 Sinhalese civilians, who were travelling in 3 buses and 2 trucks to Trincomalee were killed by cadres of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam organization, commonly known as LTTE.Tamils Kill 18 Near Site of Massacre, Los Angeles Times, April 20, 1987Map of worst terrorist attacks worldwide: 100 or more fatalities, Robert JohnstonGory carnage of killing innocent civilians-Chronology of Ltte Terror - Part 30, Daily News The cadres clad in military uniforms stopped the vehicles and dragged out the passengers and shot them to death with automatic weapons after brutally assaulting them with clubs. The near the village of Aluth Oya, on the Habarana Trincomalle road in North Central Province of Sri Lanka.LTTESri Lankan Civil WarApril 21Car bombing110Unknown Colombo, Sri Lanka Colombo Central Bus Station bombingCar bomb at bus terminal kills 110 people.BBC News: Timeline of the Tamil conflict, September 4, 2000 This attack was carried by LTTE.defence.lkLTTESri Lankan Civil WarJune 2Massacre344Ampara District, Sri LankaA bus carrying Buddhist monks was stopped and 30 Buddhist monks and four civilians were killed by LTTE.LTTESri Lankan Civil WarJune 19Car bombing2145Barcelona, Spain1987 Hipercor bombingA car bomb at the Hipercor shopping centre placed by Basque separatist group ETA kills 21 people and injures 45 more.ETABasque conflictJune 20Massacre32Ömerli, Mardin, TurkeyPınarcık massacreThe Pınarcık massacre was the killing of 24 Kurdish women and children and eight village guards in the village of Pınarcık, by units of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The dead consisted of 16 children, eight village guards, and eight womenKurdistan Workers' PartyKurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)July 7Massacre3430+Haryana, India1987 Punjab killingsSikh militants from the Khalistan Commando Force massacre 34 Hindu bus passengers after setting up a fake road block.Khalistan Commando ForcePunjab insurgencyAugust 18Grenade attack 216Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka1987 grenade attack in the Sri Lankan ParliamentA member of the communist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (People's Liberation Front) threw two hand grenades into the Parliament of Sri Lanka, narrowly missing president J. R. Jayewardene and prime minister Ranasinghe Premadasa and killing an MP and a Ministry secretary.Janatha Vimukthi PeramunaJVP insurgency November 8Bombing1263Enniskillen, Northern IrelandRemembrance Day bombingPIRA Bombing targeting a group of Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers at a remembrance service for those lost in conflict. Most of the deaths were civilians.PIRAThe TroublesDecember 11Car bombing1188Zaragoza, Spain1987 Zaragoza Barracks bombingETA car bombing targeting a Civil Guard barracks. 11 people, five of them children, were killed and 88 people, mostly civilians, wounded.ETABasque conflict
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