 This phase of the war was initiated by the LTTE who massacred almost 600 Sinhalese and Muslim police personnel after they were ordered by the Premadasa government to surrender to the LTTE.The truce was broken on June 10, 1990 when the LTTE in October expelled all the 28,000 Muslims residing in Jaffna.In June 1990, the LTTE eastern cadres, led by then-LTTE Eastern commander Karuna Amman, massacred 774 police officers stationed in the Eastern province after they surrendered to them on orders from the government.