Tampalakamam massacre

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Sri Lankan Conflict

Background

• Sri Lanka • History of Sri Lanka

Origins of the Civil War

• Origins of the Civil War • Black July • Human Rights Issues • Riots and pogroms • Attributed State terrorism • Prison massacres • Tamil militant groups

LTTE

• LTTE • Attributed Terrorist attacks • Child Soldiers • Attributed assasinations • Notable Attacks • Expulsion of Muslims from Jaffna

Major figures

• Mahinda Rajapakse • Velupillai Prabhakaran • Karuna Amman • Sarath Fonseka

Indian Involvement

• Operation Poomalai • Indo-Sri Lanka Accord • Indian Peace Keeping Force • Rajiv Gandhi • RAW

See also

• Military of Sri Lanka • TMVP • EPDP • Notable assassinations This box: view • talk • edit

Tampalakamam massacre happened on February 3, 1998 when eight (8) minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians were taken to the nearby police station and shot dead by Sri Lankan police and majority Sinhalese home guards. The victims include a 13 and a 17 year old boys.^[1]. Later one of the accused in murder case was shot dead by unknown gunmen^[2]

[edit] Incident

On the day of the incident about twenty (20) police arrested the victims. After taking the victims inside the police post they were shot at close range. The Kantalai police reportedly went house to house pressuring the families to write and sign statement stating that those victims were killed by the LTTE or that they were killed by members of the LTTE. Later a national television channel reported that six (6) LTTE cadres were killed at Tampalakamam .^[3]

[edit] Result

The alleged police officers have not been arrested. They were instead transferred to Kantalai police station and are still on duty..^[4]

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