On 11th, the army fired shells and took away 25 persons, including the postmaster and a technical assistant. Some buildings were burnt. Many people fled into the Eravur North. As the army began moving...

A major military operation was launched between 04.09.1985 and 09.09.1985. This operation was aiming to chase away the Eelamtamils from northern parts of Thirukonamalai (Trincomalee). The three forces...

13. Vipulananthar (MT22) was 30 and was working as a cashier in a shop in Jaffna. His sister Rathidevi says, “There were just the two of us in the family, my brother and myself. Our father died long b...

Mailanthanai is an isolated village in Mattakalappu (Batticaloa), where paddy cultivators and cattle farmers managed to make a meagre living, surviving at the mercy of the elements. They live in ramsh...

Between 23.08.1990 and 25.09.1990, the Sri Lankan military detained hundreds of young Eelamtamil men from the neighbouring villages of Mandaitivu, Allaipiddy, and Mankumban (M-A-M). At least seventy o...

Details of Eelamtamils, who were killed by the Sri Lankan state in the month of August – 2007 Details of Eelamtamils, who were enforced disappeared by the Sri Lankan state in the month of August...

The Claymore is a “directional mine,” a curved plastic pack of Composition C-3 explosive (later C-4) into which numerous steel cubes were embedded. When detonated, the mine would blast out its fragmen...

On 12.10.2003, Human remains were found in a pit near the Periyathambiran Temple in Thiraikeni, 57km south of Mattkalappu (Batticaloa) town in the Mattakalappu-Pottuvil road when Thiraikeni residents ...

On 04.08.2006, 17 Eelamtamil activists who were working for the French NGO “Action Contre La Faim” (ACF), brutally killed by the Sri Lankan government troops in Muthur. The statement of MSF-(Doctors w...

The IPKF, which arrived in the northeast province in 1987 following the signing of Indo-Sri Lanka peace agreement in a bid to resolve the ethnic conflict with a political solution, launched a military...