Sri Lankan air force jets bombed a crowded church at Vavunikulam on 15.08.1997, killed at 14 Eelamatamils, and injuring 15 others. 10 civilians were seriously injured in another attack at Puthuvilanku...

13.08.2006 Allaipiddy is one of the islets off the Yaalppanam coast. The SL military fired indiscriminately towards the PhilipNeri church from  Palaly military base where people had taken refuge....

26. S.Sivaruban (AP19) was 17 and was studying at school when he was taken in. He is one of five children of three boys and two girls. His mother Thangaludchumi says, “My eldest son died of asthma in ...

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...

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...