The Sri Lankan, Navy, Army and the Air Force staged a combined attack on the Eelamtamil settlements in the village of Muthur East in Thirukonamalai district for more than four hours on 25 April 2006. ...

On the 21st April 1985, SLAF arrived very early in the morning and took their positions. We were still asleep. Previously if we found out that the SLA were going to come, we would go and hide in the f...

Chunnakam market is situated 7 Kms from Yaalppanam town on Chunnakam road. This is a central market where most agricultural products grown in Yaalppanam, Kilinochchi and also other district are brough...

March 1 – A media outlet reported witness accounts of heavy shelling [in the NFZ] by both parties to the conflict.  March 3 – A source in Valayanmadam reported shelling in the area of the Maththa...

The Principal of the Vankalai Mahavidhyalayam school, Sebamalai, a teacher from Vankalai, Justin Lambert, and a few others went to Colombo through Katpiddy to purchase some items for their homes. They...

1. Vaddakandal massacre – 30.01.1985 On 30.01.1985, around 5.00am , 200 Sri Lankan military men stationed in the Thalladi military camp came out and moved into the Vaddakandal village through Ma...

On 24.01.2006, Mr.S.S.Rajan, Thirukonamalai correspondent for “Sudar Oli,” a Tamil daily published from Colombo was shot dead at the  morning around 6:00 close to his residence while ...

The inhumane artillery attack on 22.01.2009 has targeted an institution for disabled children, the ‘Sweet Life Home’ (Iniya Vaalvu illam), and the tightly populated settlement in front of ...

SLA targeted the IDP settlements  in Chuthanthirapuram junction on 20.01.2009, around 1:45 p.m, killing two including a boy. Two Eelamtamils killed were identified as 12-year-old Alagan Pirasanth...

On that fatal day of 29 January 2008, the children and others from the displaced community that has taken refuge in the Madhu church complex were returning home, most of them from the Mannar Sinapandi...