Arumathurai Thanaluxmi

Arumathurai Thanaluxmi was a minority Sri Lankan Tamil girl aged 15 who was gang-raped and killed by the Sri Lankan Army during the Kumarapuram massacre in Trincomalee on 11 February 1996,[1][2] and who became a cause célèbre of the Sri Lankan civil war because of this.[3][4]

Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi
Born
DiedFebruary 11, 1996

The incident

Arumathurai Thanaluxmi 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 gang-raped and murdered by Sri Lankan Army soldiers. Antony Joseph who tried to stop the soldiers was also shot.[3][4][5] She was shot dead by Corporal Kumara, one of the eight accused in the massacre.[2]

Government Investigation

On July 27, 2016, an all-Sinhalese jury of the Anuradhapura High Court acquitted the six accused former soldiers.[2]

See also

References

  1. "Impunity Reigns in Sri Lanka: The Kumarapuram Massacre and Acquittals" (PDF). People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL). March 20, 2017.
  2. ""His name is Kamaleswaran"". Groundviews. 2017-02-11. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
  3. Sri Lanka: Wavering Commitment to Civil Rights Report by Amnesty International, 13 August 1996
  4. Asia: Refuge! Ethnicity and nationality. Refugees in Asia , Report by Amnesty International, 30 September 1997.
  5. "UA 35/96 Extrajudicial executions / Fear of further killings". www.derechos.org. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
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