Action Contre La Faim staff massacre 05 Aug 2006
Action Contre La Faim staff massacre 05 Aug 2006
Action Faim is an INGO based in France that was working to assist the tsunami affected people in Trincomalee. They had an office in Muthur located in the Trincomalee district. Following widespread military clashes between the Sri Lankan Government and LTTE in August 2006, people were moving out the area. The staff of this INGO was ordered by their superiors
to remain in their Muthur office.
The Sri Lankan military carried out a point blank execution of 17 employees of this INGO on 5 August 2006. The military had buried the bodies of the victims which were exhumed later for forensic examination. This massacre created an international outcry. This massacre was one of the few of massacres selected by the Sri Lankan Government for special inquiry under the supervision of an international monitoring group of eminent person headed by an Indian judge. The eminent person left the island in disgust in 2008 after losing confident in the manner in which the investigations were conducted.
Action Faim is demanding an international investigation into the massacre.
Names of victims (name, age)
- A Jaseelan, 31
- Abdul Latif Mohamed Jauffer, 31
- G. Kavitha, 27
- G. Sreethraran, 36
- Muraleetharan, 35
- K. Koneshwaran, 24
- K.Kovarthani, 28
- M. Narmathan, 24
- M. Rishikeshan, 28
- Matahavarasa Ketheeswaran, 36
- P.Partheeban, 27
- Primus Anandarajah, 34
- R. Arulraj, 24
- S. Ganesh, 54
- S.Romila, 25
- V.Kokilavathani, 29
- Y. Kodeeswaran, 31
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