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Sri Lanka's Genocidal War - '95 to '01
Massacre of Tamils at the Jeyanthipuram camp - 23 May 1995
"The bodies of Ravichandran Kuganathan, Rajalingam Mariyadas and Nadarajah Pararajasingham, all from Batticaloa town, were found in the evening of 23 May 1995 under a palmyrah tree near the post at Vijayapuram, Batticaloa. They had been arrested together with one other person from their homes around 6 a.m. on that day. They had shot gun injuries in the chest. Their bodies had initially been illegally buried by the police. However, later, after a local member of parliament informed government authorities, a magisterial inquiry was ordered and the bodies exhumed... During the inquiry, a fourth young man, who had been arrested and who had also been shot under the palmyrah tree but had survived his injuries, was called to give evidence. According to Amnesty International sources, he stated that he had been 'accidentally shot at home whilst he was sleeping'."(Amnesty International Report ASA 37/10/95, June 1995)
"Thurairajah Uthyasekar and three other Tamils were pushed late at night into some open scrubland. The police stepped back a few paces and unleashed a hail of automatic gun fire. He somehow escaped with a shattered wrist and crawled painfully to a nearby convent after feigning deathÂ…" (British Refugee Council, Sri Lanka Monitor, May 1995 titled, 'Killers in Uniform') |
"As a reprisal for a landmine explosion at Koduvamadu, 6 Tamil civilians were shot dead by the Sri Lanka security forces. Of these four were women. Two were men. The four women were working on Pethankudah farm near Koduvamadu, when they were shot dead. Veerasingham Komaleswari (32), Kathirkamathamby (45), Sembakodi Pakiam (35) and her daughter Pavanithurai Bhavani (160, Velakutti Gunaseelan (28), from Thampanam village, Abdual Rahman, (27) an ice cream vendor from Eravur, were those who were killed.Thangarasa Ranjini (22) and Ariarathinam Mallika (17) were admitted to hospital with injuries. The dead bodies were taken to the Eravur hospital. The TULF M.P. Mr.K.Thuraisingham has complained about these killings of Tamil civilians." (Colombo Daily, Virakesari, 14 June 1995)
see also Genocide in Kumarapuram... 11 February 1996