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 célèbre 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. 1 2 Sri Lanka: Wavering Commitment to Civil Rights Report by Amnesty International, 13 August 1996
  2. 1 2 Asia: Refuge! Ethnicity and nationality. Refugees in Asia Archived October 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine., 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. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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