Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi
| Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi | |
|---|---|
| Born | Trincomalee, Sri Lanka |
| Died | February 11, 1996 |
Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi was a minority Sri Lankan Tamil woman aged 17 who was raped and killed in Kumarapuram in Trincomalee on 16 December 16, 2005, and who became a cause celebre of the Sri Lankan civil war because of this.[1][2]
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]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sri Lanka: Wavering Commitment to Civil Rights Report by Amnesty International, 13 August 1996
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- ↑ http://www.glue.umd.edu/~pkd/sl/archive/uthr_b10[]
