In June 1990 , during his tenure as IGP , Perera instructed police officers at all police stations in the Eastern Province to surrender to members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) , at the request of President Ranasinghe Premadasa , which resulted in the subsequent mass murder of over 600 unarmed police by the LTTE . The massacre triggered the start of the second Eelam War
mass murder of over 600 unarmed police
1990 massacre of Sri Lankan Police officers
Ernest Perera