Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi | |
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Died | February 11, 1996 |
Arumathurai Thanaluxmi was a minority Sri Lankan Tamil girl aged 15 who was gang-raped and killed by the Sri Lankan Army during the Kumarapuram massacre in Trincomalee on 11 February 1996, [1] [2] and who became a cause célèbre of the Sri Lankan civil war because of this. [3] [4]
Arumathurai Thanaluxmi 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 gang-raped and murdered by Sri Lankan Army soldiers. Antony Joseph who tried to stop the soldiers was also shot. [3] [4] [5] She was shot dead by Corporal Kumara, one of the eight accused in the massacre. [2]
On July 27, 2016, an all- Sinhalese jury of the Anuradhapura High Court acquitted the six accused former soldiers. [2]
Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi | |
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Born | |
Died | February 11, 1996 |
Arumathurai Thanaluxmi was a minority Sri Lankan Tamil girl aged 15 who was gang-raped and killed by the Sri Lankan Army during the Kumarapuram massacre in Trincomalee on 11 February 1996, [1] [2] and who became a cause célèbre of the Sri Lankan civil war because of this. [3] [4]
Arumathurai Thanaluxmi 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 gang-raped and murdered by Sri Lankan Army soldiers. Antony Joseph who tried to stop the soldiers was also shot. [3] [4] [5] She was shot dead by Corporal Kumara, one of the eight accused in the massacre. [2]
On July 27, 2016, an all- Sinhalese jury of the Anuradhapura High Court acquitted the six accused former soldiers. [2]