Mathawachchi – Rampawa ­ September 1984

Mathawachchi is located south of Vavuniya on the A9 road. The village is populated mainly by Sinhala and Muslim people.Following the 1983 pogrom against Tamils, Tamil passengers traveling from Colombo to Jaffna have been attacked on several occasions.

One day in the first week of September 1984 a passenger bus which was going to Jaffna from Colombo was stopped at Mathawachchi junction by the Sri Lankan military and the bus with the passengers were taken to Mannar road and there 15 civilians in the bus were killed including the driver and 31 civilians were wounded.