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...
Eleven Eelamtails, including seven students were killed and two students injured in a clandestine claymore mine attack by the SL Deep penetration unit at Iyankankulam, a small village in Kilinochchi o...
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...
The genocidal war on Eelamtamils has resulted in a large number of killings and disappearances. Among these victims were several Catholic priests. Fr. Mary Bastian, Fr. Wenceslaus, Fr. Chandra F...