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  2. Case of Wijikala Nanthan and Sivamani Sinnathamby Weerakon

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    Wijikala Nanthan and Sivamani Sinnathamby Weerakon were aged 24 and 22 years when they arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy in Mannar and accused of being members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Wijikala who was pregnant, her husband, Sivamani Sinnathamby Weerakon and her child were arrested at 11.00 PM and allegedly tortured in custody.

  3. War crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War

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    Between 14 and 16 January 2010 the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal held a Tribunal on Sri Lanka in Dublin, Ireland to investigate allegations that the Sri Lankan armed forces committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during its final phase of the war, and to examine violations of human rights in the aftermath of the war and the factors that ...

  4. Sri Lankan Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The Sri Lankan Civil War was very costly, killing more than 100,000 civilians [ 337] and over 50,000 fighters from both sides of the conflict. Around 27,000+ LTTE cadres, 28,708+ Sri Lankan Army personnel, [ 338] 1000+ Sri Lankan police, 1500 Indian soldiers were said to have died in the conflict.

  5. Tamils faced torture in Sri Lanka long after war, rights ...

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    By Uditha Jayasinghe. COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's security forces abducted men and women from the ethnic Tamil minority and tortured them in custody long after the end of a bloody civil war in ...

  6. Mullivaikkal massacre - Wikipedia

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    Mullivaikkal massacre. The Mullivaikkal massacre was the mass killing of tens of thousands of Sri Lankan Tamils in 2009 during the closing stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War, which ended in May 2009 in a tiny strip of land in Mullivaikkal, Mullaitivu. The Sri Lankan government had designated a no-fire zone in Mullivaikkal towards the end of the ...

  7. Dead or alive? Parents of children gone in Sri Lanka's civil ...

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    Parents of children gone in Sri Lanka's civil war have spent 15 years seeking answers ... Severe criticism against the U.N. led then Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to set up an internal review ...

  8. Tamil genocide - Wikipedia

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    The Tamil genocide, also known as the Sri Lankan Tamil genocide, or the Eelam Tamil genocide, refers to the various acts of physical violence and cultural destruction committed against the Tamil population in Sri Lanka during the Sinhala –Tamil ethnic conflict beginning in 1956, particularly during the Sri Lankan Civil War.

  9. Jaffna hospital massacre - Wikipedia

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    The government of Sri Lanka in 2008 termed it a crime against humanity. [1] A number of independent observers such as University Teachers for Human Rights, a Human Rights organization from Sri Lanka, and western observers such Mr. John Richardson [6] and others [2] [5] [13] [12] maintain that it was a massacre of civilians.