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...

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...

An human rights activist in a leftwing political group said that he with others from the group had gone to Kent and Dollar Farms just after the November 1984. The survivors had told them that the sett...