Edited sentence: During the 1958 riots, Tamil rioters attacked the Sri Naga Vihare in Jaffna and the Nagadeepa Purana Vihara, completely destroying the latter.During the civil war, there had been a number of attacks by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and other Tamil nationalist militant groups at Buddhist sites such as the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi and the Dalada Maligawa, often involving the massacre of Sinhala-Buddhist civilians.In 1977, a Buddhist temple in Kilinochchi was burned by a Tamil mob