Die SLA kam in gepanzerten Fahrzeugen und Panzern die Pandivirichchan-Stra\u00dfe herunter. Auf dieser Stra\u00dfe stand ein Fahrzeug, das einem armen Mann geh\u00f6rte, der Menschen von Karadiyanaru zum Madhu-Tempel gebracht hatte. Die SLA zerst\u00f6rte das Fahrzeug vollst\u00e4ndig.<\/em>
Als sie ankamen, umzingelten sie die Kirche. Sie t\u00f6teten und schlugen einige Menschen. Im Inneren schlugen sie Menschen. Gegen 9:45 Uhr h\u00f6rten wir BBC im Radio; die erste Bombe fiel auf den Ort, an dem die Schwestern schliefen. Die n\u00e4chste fiel vor der Kirche auf den Banyanbaum. Die n\u00e4chste fiel auf meine Kirche. Die vierte Bombe fiel auf meinen Kopf. Das Dach st\u00fcrzte ein und t\u00f6tete sofort etwa einundzwanzig Menschen um mich herum, dann herrschte Stille. Wir alle sahen, wie diese Bombe aus dem Divisional Secretariat kam.<\/em>
Wir wussten nicht, was wir tun sollten. Gegen 13 Uhr wurde ich in einem Fahrzeug der SLA ins Krankenhaus gebracht. Nach 25 Tagen kam ich wieder zu Bewusstsein. Meine Mutter, meine \u00e4ltere Schwester, meine Onkel und meine Cousins waren alle an diesem Tag ums Leben gekommen. Der GS half uns dabei, herauszufinden, was mit allen passiert war. Es gab Tote aus Vavuniya und einige aus Murunkan. Die \u00fcbrigen kamen alle aus dieser Gegend und geh\u00f6rten alle zu unserer Familie.\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nVerf\u00fcgbare Namen der Opfer (Name, Beruf, Alter):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Madhu church, Mannar, is a St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Church and is popular among all ethnic communities in the area. During the 1990s following the SLAFs attacks several people from Jaffna, Mannar and Vavuniya were displaced to the church\u2019s surroundings, as it was considered a safe refuge. On 20th November 1999, the SLAFs were advancing through the forest towards the church and continually firing their weapons. As a result, people in the villages, such as Palampuddi, also displaced to the surroundings of Madhu church. When the SLAFs arrived they forced all the civilians to go to the church. At 9.45 pm the SLAFs started shelling. Two of the shells fell on the banyan tree in front of the church. The third shell fell on the church. 31 people including children died. Nine more people died in the hospital. More than 74 were injured. Chandrasekumaran Amarasingam was in the Madhu Church when the shelling started. His account of the incident is as follows: \u201cI had been living in Thathinapuram Palampuddi for a long time. On that day, the SLA told us to go to Madhu Church and they will look after us there. This message was conveyed to us through UNHCR. So we all went to the Temple. Once there we were told to go in and then go out again a few times. There were so many people at the temple. Finally the SLA made us all go into the Temple and then closed us in.The SLA came down Pandivirichchan Road in armoured vehicles and tanks. On that road there was a vehicle that belonged to a poor man who had brought people from Karadiyanaru to Madhu Temple. The SLA destroyed the vehicle completely.Once they arrived, they surrounded the Church. They killed and hit a few people. Inside they hit people. Around 9:45, we were listening to BBC on the radio; the first shell fell on the place where the sisters were sleeping. The other fell in front of the temple on the banyan tree. The next one fell on my temple. The fourth shell fell on my head. The roof frame fell down and instantly killed about twenty one people all around me and then there was silence. We all saw this shell come from the Divisional Secretariat.We did not know what to do. Around 1.00 pm, I was taken in an SLA vehicle to the hospital. I regained consciousness after 25 days. My mother, and elder sister, uncles, cousins all died that day. The GS helped us to find out what happened to everyone. There were people from Vavuniya and some from Murunkan who died. The rest were all from this area and were all from our family.” Available names of victims (name, occupation, age): Source:1999: “Massacre of Tamils 1956 – 2008”, NESOHR (2010), pp. 162 – 164.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_view_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[626,624,623,625],"class_list":["post-3795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30sec2remember","tag-madhu-2","tag-madhu-church-mannar","tag-madhu-church-massacre","tag-mannar-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795","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=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3805,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions\/3805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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1999: \"Massacre of Tamils 1956 - 2008\", NESOHR (2010), pp. 162 - 164.<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n