{"id":1212,"date":"2020-02-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2022-09-08T22:23:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:23:28","slug":"11-02-1996-kumarapuram-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/11-02-1996-kumarapuram-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"11.02.1996 \u2013 Kumarapuram Massaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Das Dorf Kumarapuram befindet sich in der Assistant Government Agent Division von Mutur im Distrikt Trincomalee. Es befindet sich zwischen den D\u00f6rfern Kiliveddi und Parathipuram. Das Dorf wird im Osten durch den Allaikulam-Wasserreservoir und im Westen durch einen Sportplatz und eine Milchsammelstelle begrenzt. Ein Milit\u00e4rlager befindet sich nur 2 km von der Nordgrenze entfernt. Menschen aus allen ethnischen Gemeinschaften lebten hier ohne jegliche Disharmonie. Nach den Milit\u00e4raktionen von 1995 lebten die Menschen im Dorf in Angst. Das Massaker am 11.02.1996 geschah w\u00e4hrend einer dieser Milit\u00e4raktionen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"1216\" src=\"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Englisch-4-819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Englisch-4-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Englisch-4-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Englisch-4-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Englisch-4-10x12.png 10w, https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Englisch-4.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Am 11.02.1996 um 16.00 Uhr h\u00f6rten die Menschen Sch\u00fcsse. Die ver\u00e4ngstigten Menschen rannten in das gro\u00dfe Waldgebiet in der N\u00e4he des Allaikulam und versteckten sich dort. Einige Menschen blieben zu Hause. Im Haus von Alagutharai hielten sich acht Mitglieder der Familie zu Hause auf. Alle acht wurden in ihrem Haus von den Soldaten der sri-lankischen Armee erschossen.&nbsp;<br>Bei der Untersuchung dieses Massakers sagte der B\u00fcrgermeister in seiner Aussage, Rasenthiram Karunaharan sei vor seinen Augen erschossen worden, als die beiden sich unterhielten. Ein anderer Mann, Nagarasa, verlor durch die Sch\u00fcsse sein Sehverm\u00f6gen.<br>Arumaithurai Thanalaxmi, ein 16-j\u00e4hriges M\u00e4dchen, war mit ihrem achtj\u00e4hrigen Bruder auf ihrem Fahrrad unterwegs. Als sie die Sch\u00fcsse h\u00f6rten, nahm sie ihren Bruder und versteckte sich in einem nahe gelegenen Gesch\u00e4ft. Das Milit\u00e4r zerrte sie heraus und brachte sie zur Milchsammelstelle, wo sie von den Soldaten gruppenvergewaltigt wurde. Ein sri-lankischer Soldat, Korporal Kumara, gestand bei der Untersuchung, sie erschossen zu haben. Auf die Frage, warum er sie erschossen habe, gab er an, sie sei schwer verletzt gewesen und habe mehrere Bisswunden gehabt, die von den Milit\u00e4rs, die sie gruppenvergewaltigt hatten, verursacht worden seien, und sie sei in einem so schlechten Zustand gewesen, dass er sie erschossen habe. Bei diesem Massaker wurden 26 Menschen get\u00f6tet. 22 wurden schwer verletzt. Viele der Verletzten, die ohne medizinische Versorgung starben, wurden als nat\u00fcrliche Todesursache registriert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em><strong>Quellen:<\/strong>\n1996: \"Massacres of Tamils 1956 - 2008\", <em>NESOHR<\/em> (2010), pp. 143 - 144\nNames: \"Massacres of Tamils 1956 - 2008\", Tamil Version, NESOHR (2010), pp. 143 - 145<\/em><\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kumarapuram village is situated in the Assistant Government Agent Division of Mutur in the Trincomalee district. It is located between the villages of Kiliveddi and Parathipuram. The village is bounded in east by the Allaikulam water reservoir and in the west by a sport ground and a milk collection centre. A military camp is just 2 Kms from its north border. People from all the different ethnic communities lived here without any disharmony. After the 1995 military activities people in the village lived in fear. The massacre on 11.02.1996 happened during one of these military activities. On 11.02.1996 at 4.00 pm people heard firing noises. The frightened people ran into the large forest area near the Allaikulam and hid there. Some people stayed at home. In the home of Alagutharai, eight members of the family stayed at home. All eight of them were shot dead in their home by the military.&nbsp;In the inquiry on this massacre the village headman in his evidence said Rasenthiram Karunaharan was shot dead in front of him as the two were talking. Another man Nagarasa lost his eyesight as a result of the shooting.Arumaithurai Thanalaxmi, a 16 year old girl was taking her eight year old brother on her bicycle. When they heard the shooting she took her brother and hid in a nearby shop. The military dragged her out and took her to the milk collection centre and there she was gang raped by the military. One Sri Lankan soldier, Corporal Kumara, confessed to shooting her dead at the inquiry. When asked why he shot her he stated that she was badly injured with several bite marks made by the military men who gang raped her and that she was in such a bad state that he shot her. 26 people were killed in this massacre. 22 were seriously injured. Many of the injured who died without medical care were recorded as deaths by natural causes. Sources: 1996: &#8220;Massacres of Tamils 1956 &#8211; 2008&#8221;, NESOHR (2010), pp. 143 &#8211; 144 Names: &#8220;Massacres of Tamils 1956 &#8211; 2008&#8221;, Tamil Version, NESOHR (2010), pp. 143 &#8211; 145<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_view_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[205,204],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30sec2remember","tag-11-02-1996","tag-kumarapuram-massacre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}