Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi

Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi was a minority Sri Lankan Tamil woman aged 17 who was raped and killed by Sri Lankan Government Armed forces in Kumarapuram in Trincomalee on 11 February 1996, and who became a cause célèbre of the Sri Lankan civil war because of this.[1][2]

Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi
Born
Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
DiedFebruary 11, 1996

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. Sri Lanka: Wavering Commitment to Civil Rights Report by Amnesty International, 13 August 1996
  2. Asia: Refuge! Ethnicity and nationality. Refugees in Asia , Report by Amnesty International, 30 September 1997.
  3. "UA 35/96 Extrajudicial executions / Fear of further killings". www.derechos.org. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20070313141202/http://www.glue.umd.edu/~pkd/sl/archive/uthr_b10. Archived from the original on March 13, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2007. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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