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Saturday, September 15, 2018
Sathurukondan massacre: 185 Tamils slaughtered by SL army and Muslim home guards remembered
The slaughter of 185 Tamils by the Sri Lankan army with the assistance
of the Muslim home guards in Sathurukondon, Batticaloa was remembered 28
years on at the memorial site in the village.
10Sep 2018
Families of those massacred gathered to remember the horrific event.
On September 9th 1990, Sri Lankan soldiers and Muslim Home Guards
rounded up 186 Tamil men, women and children from Sathurukondan and
surrounding villages. The Tamils were taken to a nearby army camp.
The one survivor, Kanthasamy Krishnakumar who managed to escape after
being stabbed, described how all others were slaughtered with machetes,
knives and blunt objects.
"On this day at around five thirty in the evening Army men both in civil
and military clothing came and told that the officer in charge of the
Camp wanted us to come to the camp for enquiry and so they took us.
Elderly, Women, children and even babies were taken to the Sathurukondan
Army camp," Krishnakumar later testified.
"After that, four of us were taken to the backside of the camp and
blindfolded and our mouths were stuffed with cloth. Later they laid us
on a wood brick and suddenly they started stabbing us with sharp knives.
I laid there as if I was dead. I heard voices of agony and pain I can’t
even describe, all around me."
The massacre came just days after the Vantharumoolai round-up, from
which 158 Tamils seeking refuge at the Eastern University campus were
arrested by Sri Lankan soldiers and never seen again.
The mass killings, which were carried out during the presidency of the
UNP's Ranasinghe Premadasa, were investigated in a probe established by
then-president Chandrika Kumaratunga in 1997. The probe identified three
captains in the Sri Lankan army as being responsible for the killings.
The retired judge who led the inquiry, K Palakidnar said that there was
strong evidence for the massacre and urged Ms Kumaratunga to hold the
perpetrators to account, however no action was taken by the government.
The slaughter of 185 Tamils by the Sri Lankan army with the assistance
of the Muslim home guards in Sathurukondon, Batticaloa was remembered 28
years on at the memorial site in the village.
10Sep 2018
Families of those massacred gathered to remember the horrific event.
On September 9th 1990, Sri Lankan soldiers and Muslim Home Guards
rounded up 186 Tamil men, women and children from Sathurukondan and
surrounding villages. The Tamils were taken to a nearby army camp.
The one survivor, Kanthasamy Krishnakumar who managed to escape after
being stabbed, described how all others were slaughtered with machetes,
knives and blunt objects.
"On this day at around five thirty in the evening Army men both in civil
and military clothing came and told that the officer in charge of the
Camp wanted us to come to the camp for enquiry and so they took us.
Elderly, Women, children and even babies were taken to the Sathurukondan
Army camp," Krishnakumar later testified.
"After that, four of us were taken to the backside of the camp and
blindfolded and our mouths were stuffed with cloth. Later they laid us
on a wood brick and suddenly they started stabbing us with sharp knives.
I laid there as if I was dead. I heard voices of agony and pain I can’t
even describe, all around me."
The massacre came just days after the Vantharumoolai round-up, from
which 158 Tamils seeking refuge at the Eastern University campus were
arrested by Sri Lankan soldiers and never seen again.
The mass killings, which were carried out during the presidency of the
UNP's Ranasinghe Premadasa, were investigated in a probe established by
then-president Chandrika Kumaratunga in 1997. The probe identified three
captains in the Sri Lankan army as being responsible for the killings.
The retired judge who led the inquiry, K Palakidnar said that there was
strong evidence for the massacre and urged Ms Kumaratunga to hold the
perpetrators to account, however no action was taken by the government.
