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...

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 ...

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...

On 05.01.2000, Kumar Ponnambalam was planning to go out with his son Gajen to inspect a Benz car which he intended buying and adding to his fleet of 19 cars of that make. After hearing about the explo...

Following account is based on the statement given to us by a family member of one of the victims and the descriptions of the attack given by several other residents who faced the Sri Lankan Navy ...

The massacre occurred on 19 December 2000, when nine Eelamtamils including a three year old child in the Yaalppanam district disappeared from their homes in Mirisuvil in the Thenmaradchy area. The nin...