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<strong>Lest</strong> we forget – Massacres of Tamils 1956 2002 On 30.05.1986, military in black uniform entered the home in Thampalakamam and killed the father, mother and two children. A 13 year old girl and another woman escaped with injuries. On 17.06.1986, 8 farmers disappeared from their fields in Puthukkudiyiruppu in Thampalakamam. On 20.06.86, the Sri Lankan Air Force and the Sri Lankan Army, stationed at the Thampalakamam junction, made a joint attack on the Thampalakamam village. People were forced to displace. More than 25 of the displaced villagers took refuge in the Potkerni rice mill in the village. The military that arrived at the rice mill arrested all the people in the rice mill and took them. The owner was spared. The bodies of those taken were recovered in the forest nearby. 34 people died in this incident. On the same day in Sampalthivu five civilians were shot dead. One Thankarasa was set alight inside his car. 45. Paranthan farmers massacre 28.06.1986 Paranthan is situated in the Kandavalai Assistant Government Agent Division in the Kilinochchi district. Paranthan is a key town in the Kilinochchi district. The main economic activity of the people is farming. Some also fish for additional income and some work as laborers. Paranthan was subjected to many military attacks has been badly affected as a result during the war. In particular, this area faced the persistent attacks from the Elephant Pass military camp of the Sri Lankan military. On 28.06.1986 at 5.15am, there was shelling from the Elephant Pass camp. The military moved forward into the Paranthan main road. Seven farmers who were irrigating their plots along the main road were arrested by the military for no apparent reason. They were tied together by a rope and tortured. Their bodies were later discovered in the nearby by waste water canal. Those who arrived to work in the paddy fields that afternoon at 3.30 pm saw the bodies and informed the families. Many people in Paranthan displaced in the 1980’s from their homes due to such persistent atrocities. Report by NESOHR, Information Collected by SNE 37
<strong>Lest</strong> we forget – Massacres of Tamils 1956 2002 46. Peruveli refugee camp massacre 15.07.1986 Peruveli is a Tamil village situated in Batticaloa, 1 Km to the right from the Mallikaithivu junction. The Peruveli Government Mixed School was converted into a refugee camp in 1985. The Mallikaithivu Grama Sevakar (GS) division is made up mostly of Tamil villages. However, there were also a few Sinhala villages in this GS division. Large number home guards armed by the Sri Lankan military were stationed in the Sinhala villages of Dehiwatte and Nilapola. Many locals in these two villages belonged to these home guards. Since the Sinhalese villagers and Tamils in adjacent villages socialized well these home guards acted as informants to the military, which had a program of killing Tamil civilians. On 15.07.1986, the home guards and the Sri Lankan military surrounded the Peruveli refugee camp at night and were lying in waiting. Since the adjacent Tamil villages to the refugee camp had already been destroyed by the military, and since the refugees did not move out at night due to fear, no one knew about the military and home guards lying in waiting. As early morning light started to appear the military and home guards entered the refugee camps and started to shoot at random. Some of the refugees who have gone to their homes to check were also attacked. In total, 48 people were shot dead and more 20 were injured. Many women were raped during this mayhem. The attack on the refugees lasted till mid-day. One survivor recounts the experience, “People from Mallikaithivu and some other villages were living in Peruveli refugee camp in fear of the army. That day, all people in the village were rounded up right throughout the night. At dawn, they shot, killed and tortured everyone they saw. They went into the refugee camp and set fire to the cottages. Whilst the cottages were burning, people were grabbed by their heads and legs and thrown into the fire. They also threw people who were alive into the fire. People were scared and were all hiding in families of four and five in some houses. They took all the men out of the houses. They shot, cut them and threw them in the wells. Report by NESOHR, Information Collected by SNE 38
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