George Jeyarajasingham
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Reverend George Jeyarajasingham, was a Methodist priest of minority Sri Lankan Tamil origin. He was born in the city of Batticaloa in eastern part of Sri Lanka. He was attached to the northwestern Mannar district methodist church.
He along with Roman Catholic priest Mary Bastian were instrumental in documenting the 1984 Mannar massacre in which over 90 civilians were killed by the Sri Lankan military.
On December 13, 1984 he along with his driver Abdul Cader Sulaiman, wife a Sinhalese Brigette Jeyarajasingham and a police constable named Jesuthasan Roche attached to the Murunkan police station, while traveling from Mannar to Murunkan were stopped by Sri Lankan Army personnel in civil. [1]. They subsequently shot and killed the three occupants of the car and it was reported that they burnt them with the vehicle.[2].
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- ^ Church farm helps the poor. Tamilnet. Retrieved on January 5, 2006.
- ^ Untold story by K. T. Rajasingam. Asia Times. Retrieved on January 5, 2006.
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