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Kumuzhamunai Massacre<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kumulamunai is in the Mullaithivu district. Farming and rearing livestock are the main occupation of the village. During the 1984, it was common for the Sri Lankan military to round up the Kumulamunai village and arrest people and torment them. On 01.10.1984, the village was rounded up by the Sri Lankan military and two people from the same family were arrested. Following this on 29.11.1984 several more villagers were arrested. Military released most of the people it had arrested except the four brothers of the two people arrested earlier and another person from Kumulamunai named Mohan. The families of these men persisted in seeking the release of the men. The military promised to release them after inquiry. On 01.12.1984, the military told the families that they have shot dead all seven men. Six of the seven men shot dead are brothers. Six of the men were married. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Available names of victims (name, age):<\/strong>
1. Ponnampalam Namasivayam, 51
2. Ponnampalam Ananthan, 53
3. Ponnampalam Kenkatharan, 45
4. Ponnampalam Ponrasa, 43
5. Ponnampalam Santhiralinkam, 49
6. Ponnampalam Vivekanantham, 47
7. Mokanathash, 32<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cheddikulam Massacre<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cheddikulam is a border village in the Vavuniya district and is located 20 Kms from the Vavuniya town along the Vavuniya-Mannar Road. Farmers, business people, labourers and government employees live in this area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 02.12.1984, the Sri Lankan military imposed curfew throughout Cheddikulam. The military began cordoning off the Cheddikulam area at 5.30am in the morning. Most of the people in the village were still asleep. The military that came into the village took the males for inquiries. 52 men were taken in the military vehicles to the adjacent town of Mathawachchi. There has been no information about these 52 men since. The people of the Cheddikulam village are saying that the 52 men were taken to a Sinhala village in Mathawachchi, and there they were chopped up with sharp knives and heavy vehicles were run over them. As a result, the Cheddikulam villagers say all 52 men died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

T Yesuthasan, teacher at Cheddikulam Mahavidhyalayam says: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFollowing the incident people displaced to Vanni, Madhu and India. Among the 52 people killed were my younger brother, my brother-in-law and two more people living with us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayilvahanam of Cheddikulam says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn that day many of us ran into the forest and hid. My home was completely destroyed by the Sri Lankan army.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Names of the Victims:<\/strong>
1. Mylvaganam Vaithilingam<\/em>
2. Kumar Varatharasa<\/em>
3. Paramalingam Paramanathan<\/em>
4. Appapillai Vettrivelpillai<\/em>
5. Oorkanasamy Jothi<\/em>
6. Kandiah Gengaratnam<\/em>
7. Sangarapillai Selventhiran<\/em>
8. Sangarapillai Nagulenthiran<\/em>
9. Sangarapillai Balenthiran<\/em>
10. Kulasegarampillai Eugene<\/em>
11. Pandian Periyarasu<\/em>
12. Chithravadivel<\/em>
13. Philippaiya Arudpragasam<\/em>
14. Ramasamy Ponnuthurai<\/em>
15. Iyampillai Paramanathan<\/em>
16. Senathirasa Nathan<\/em>
17. Muthusamy Konarkopal<\/em>
18. Murugesu Sangarappillai<\/em>
19. Ramasamy Sithamparapillai<\/em>
20. Alvin Robinson<\/em>
21. Alvin Anthony Stevenson<\/em>
22. Alvin Alexander<\/em>
23. Alvin Anton<\/em>
24. Ponnuthurai Christhuraja<\/em>
25. Ponnuthurai Thananayagam<\/em>
26. Philippupillai Anthonipillai<\/em>
27. Sounthararasan Pusparasa<\/em>
28. Sellaiah Jude<\/em>
29. Sellaiah Ketheeswaran<\/em>
30. Sellar Moorthy<\/em>
31. Sellar Mahenthiran<\/em>
32. Vethanayagam Sebamalai<\/em>
33. Veluppillai Sivabalasingam<\/em>
34. Santhappillai Iruthayarasan<\/em>
35. Sinnakutty Kanthasamy<\/em>
36. Sivaganeshan<\/em>
37. Gurukulasamy<\/em>
38. Vadivel Ashokumar<\/em>
39. Vinayagamoorthy Yoganthan<\/em>
40. Veluppillai Mahenthiran<\/em>
41. Vanniyasingam Krishnothayabalan<\/em>
42. Thiyagarasa Ananthasivam<\/em>
43. Kanthaiah Kulanthaivelu<\/em>
44. Soosaipillai Christhurasa<\/em>
45. Ramasamy Sinnathamby<\/em>
46. Mahalingam Manmatharasa<\/em>
47. Kumarasamy Satkunaseyon<\/em>
48. Aasirvatham Alexander<\/em>
49. Nagalingam<\/em>
50. Kanapathipillai Pathmarasa<\/em>
51. Michael Gnanapragasam<\/em>
52. Subramaniam Ambalavaner<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quellen:<\/strong>
1984: \"Massacre of Tamils 1956 - 2008\", NESOHR (2010), pp. 24-25.<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Kumuzhamunai Massacre Kumulamunai is in the Mullaithivu district. Farming and rearing livestock are the main occupation of the village. During the 1984, it was common for the Sri Lankan military to round up the Kumulamunai village and arrest people and torment them. On 01.10.1984, the village was rounded up by the Sri Lankan military and two people from the same family were arrested. Following this on 29.11.1984 several more villagers were arrested. Military released most of the people it had arrested except the four brothers of the two people arrested earlier and another person from Kumulamunai named Mohan. The families of these men persisted in seeking the release of the men. The military promised to release them after inquiry. On 01.12.1984, the military told the families that they have shot dead all seven men. Six of the seven men shot dead are brothers. Six of the men were married. Available names of victims (name, age):1. Ponnampalam Namasivayam, 512. Ponnampalam Ananthan, 533. Ponnampalam Kenkatharan, 454. Ponnampalam Ponrasa, 435. Ponnampalam Santhiralinkam, 496. Ponnampalam Vivekanantham, 477. Mokanathash, 32 Cheddikulam Massacre Cheddikulam is a border village in the Vavuniya district and is located 20 Kms from the Vavuniya town along the Vavuniya-Mannar Road. Farmers, business people, labourers and government employees live in this area. On 02.12.1984, the Sri Lankan military imposed curfew throughout Cheddikulam. The military began cordoning off the Cheddikulam area at 5.30am in the morning. Most of the people in the village were still asleep. The military that came into the village took the males for inquiries. 52 men were taken in the military vehicles to the adjacent town of Mathawachchi. There has been no information about these 52 men since. The people of the Cheddikulam village are saying that the 52 men were taken to a Sinhala village in Mathawachchi, and there they were chopped up with sharp knives and heavy vehicles were run over them. As a result, the Cheddikulam villagers say all 52 men died. T Yesuthasan, teacher at Cheddikulam Mahavidhyalayam says: \u201cFollowing the incident people displaced to Vanni, Madhu and India. Among the 52 people killed were my younger brother, my brother-in-law and two more people living with us.\u201d Mayilvahanam of Cheddikulam says: \u201cOn that day many of us ran into the forest and hid. My home was completely destroyed by the Sri Lankan army.\u201d Names of the Victims:1. Mylvaganam Vaithilingam2. Kumar Varatharasa3. Paramalingam Paramanathan4. Appapillai Vettrivelpillai5. Oorkanasamy Jothi6. Kandiah Gengaratnam7. Sangarapillai Selventhiran8. Sangarapillai Nagulenthiran9. Sangarapillai Balenthiran10. Kulasegarampillai Eugene11. Pandian Periyarasu12. Chithravadivel13. Philippaiya Arudpragasam14. Ramasamy Ponnuthurai15. Iyampillai Paramanathan16. Senathirasa Nathan17. Muthusamy Konarkopal18. Murugesu Sangarappillai19. Ramasamy Sithamparapillai20. Alvin Robinson21. Alvin Anthony Stevenson22. Alvin Alexander23. Alvin Anton24. Ponnuthurai Christhuraja25. Ponnuthurai Thananayagam26. Philippupillai Anthonipillai27. Sounthararasan Pusparasa28. Sellaiah Jude29. Sellaiah Ketheeswaran30. Sellar Moorthy31. Sellar Mahenthiran32. Vethanayagam Sebamalai33. Veluppillai Sivabalasingam34. Santhappillai Iruthayarasan35. Sinnakutty Kanthasamy36. Sivaganeshan37. Gurukulasamy38. Vadivel Ashokumar39. Vinayagamoorthy Yoganthan40. Veluppillai Mahenthiran41. Vanniyasingam Krishnothayabalan42. Thiyagarasa Ananthasivam43. Kanthaiah Kulanthaivelu44. Soosaipillai Christhurasa45. Ramasamy Sinnathamby46. Mahalingam Manmatharasa47. Kumarasamy Satkunaseyon48. Aasirvatham Alexander49. Nagalingam50. Kanapathipillai Pathmarasa51. Michael Gnanapragasam52. Subramaniam Ambalavaner Sources:1984: “Massacre of Tamils 1956 – 2008”, NESOHR (2010), pp. 24-25.<\/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":[632,630,631,629],"class_list":["post-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30sec2remember","tag-cheddikulam","tag-cheddikulam-massacre","tag-kumuzhamunai","tag-kumuzhamunai-massacre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","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=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3818,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions\/3818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}