Attack on Dantooine (Jedi Civil War)

A massive planetary bombardment conducted in 3,956 BBY by the Sith fleets of Darth Malak during the Jedi Civil War. The the Jedi enclave there was believed to have been sufficiently fortified and too well defended to invite an attack by the marauding Sith in that era; Malak proved the Jedi Masters there wrong by conducting a highly effective bombardment of the planet's surface, destroying the Jedi academy there and killing a number of council members (including Master Zhar). Afterward, a large-scale occupation and brutal subjugation of Dantooine's population was carried out, lasting for a number of years.

Dantooine suffered greatly under the yoke of the Sith, after the location of the Jedi enclave was exposed and the bombardment completed. Sith troops invaded and occupied the world, with many innocent settlers arrested and executed for no reason whatsoever. After the Sith were driven off, a sort of selective recollection gradually took hold amongst the populace, with many of them growing to despise the Jedi and holding them responsible for Dantooine's woes...this, despite much of the good wrought by the academy for decades previous.