“His name is Kamaleswaran”
L-R (first row): Alakuthurai Parameshwari, Ananthan Annamam, Arumaiththurau Vallippillai, Arumaithura Thanaledsumi, Kanthappodi Kamalathevi
L-R: (second row): Pakkiyarasa Vasanthini, Ramajeyam Kamaleshwaran, Rasenthiram Karunakaran, Sanmuganathan Nithanthan, Sellaththurai Pakkiyarasa
L-R: (third row): Sivakolunthu Sinnaththurai, Vadivel Nadarasa, Vinayagamoorthi Suthakaran, Thangavel Kalathevi, Kanagarasa Subathirasa
L-R: (second row): Pakkiyarasa Vasanthini, Ramajeyam Kamaleshwaran, Rasenthiram Karunakaran, Sanmuganathan Nithanthan, Sellaththurai Pakkiyarasa
L-R: (third row): Sivakolunthu Sinnaththurai, Vadivel Nadarasa, Vinayagamoorthi Suthakaran, Thangavel Kalathevi, Kanagarasa Subathirasa
Justice Denied to Survivors of the Kumarapuram Massacre
Featured image courtesy Shehan Peruma
“Shoot me but, please don’t kill my children,” pleaded Kanthappoody Kamaladevi with her arms outstretched over her head, just before she was shot dead outside her home in Kumarapuram, Killiveddy, by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA).
MARISA DE SILVA on 02/11/2017
February 11th, 2017, marks the 21st year commemoration of the brutal Kumarapuram massacre of 26 Tamil villagers, by army personnel belonging to the 58th and Dehiwatte Camps, and the Kiliveddy check point. Of those killed, six were women, five men and 13 children (below the age of 18). Also amongst those killed was 1 pregnant mother and a 15 year old girl, who was allegedly gang-raped by a group of army personnel before she was killed. Twenty six other villagers were also severely injured.
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