Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi
Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi was a minority Sri Lankan Tamil woman aged 17 who was raped and killed by Sri Lankan Government Armed forces in Kumarapuram in Trincomalee on 16 December 16, 2005, and who became a cause célèbre of the Sri Lankan civil war because of this.[1][2]
Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi | |
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| Died | February 11, 1996 |
The incident
Tharmaletchumi went to bring her neighbor Moses Vijaya's son Antony Joseph from tuition in Killiveddy and while riding back she was taken to a milk collection centre and raped and murdered. Antony Joseph who tried to stop this was also shot.[1][2][3]
Government Investigation
There has been no progress in the case and no one has been convicted.[4]
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References
- Sri Lanka: Wavering Commitment to Civil Rights Report by Amnesty International, 13 August 1996
- Asia: Refuge! Ethnicity and nationality. Refugees in Asia , Report by Amnesty International, 30 September 1997.
- "UA 35/96 Extrajudicial executions / Fear of further killings". www.derechos.org. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070313141202/http://www.glue.umd.edu/~pkd/sl/archive/uthr_b10. Archived from the original on March 13, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2007. Missing or empty
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