Thandikulam massacre
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Thandikulam massacre happened on November 19, 2006 when Sri Lankan Army troopes opened fire on a group of minority Sri Lankan Tamil and muslim students at an Agricultural College at Thandikulam close to Vavuniya in Sri Lanka. Five students were killed along with 10 injured.
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[edit] Government response
A military spokesman said ground troops told him the civilians were killed in crossfire after a rebel Tamil Tiger blast in the northern district of Vavuniya killed five soldiers on Saturday, and that police were investigating.
[edit] SLMM report
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The independent Nordic truce monitors known as the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission said on November 19 that Sri Lankan troops opened fire on a group of agriculture students at close range in the island's north on Saturday, killing five.
According to the report local eye witness accounts reported that These soldiers fired indiscriminately at a group of students who had thrown themselves on the ground seeking safety after an LTTE Claymore mine blast nearby, Helen Olafsdottir, spokeswoman for the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission that oversees the 2002 ceasefire, told Reuters.
According to her witnesses said that the soldiers jumped over the fence, into the agricultural school premises, and opened fire. She also added that the soldiers shot from close range, five of the students were killed and at least 10 others were injured. This incident follows the recent massacre of 45 minority Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Vaharai bombing and the assassination of an ethnic Tamil TNA politician Nadarajah Raviraj
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- ↑ Press release of TNA regarding the murders
- ↑ SLMM statement on the murders
- ↑ Reuters report on the murders
- ↑ BBC report mentions the murders
