Narpitimunai Massacre – 17.05.1985
Narpitimunai village is one of the villages in the Kalmunai Divisional Secretariat Division, located at a distance of 3 km from Kalmunai town in the Ampara district. Villages like Senaikudiyiruppu, Thuraineelavanai, Malwattai and Weeramunai are located around Narpitimunai. The people living here have agriculture as their main occupation. To the south of the village is a beautiful village with a small river.
On the morning of 10.09.1990, the Special Task Force (STF) stationed at Kalmunai arrested the youths who had taken to the streets of Narpitimunai village and cordoned off the village. The encircled army broke down the doors of houses in the village of Narpitimunai and arrested more youths and took them to the Sri Lanka Task Force camp in Kalmunai. Twenty-three young men who were taken away died of severe torture. On 12.09.1990, the bodies of all those who died due to torture were buried in the same pit in the village of Thambiluvil.
Details of those killed in the Narpitimunai massacre on 17.05.1985:
Younger brother Selvarasa (age 30)
Kanagasooriyar Gopalasingam (age 28)
Kanagarathinam Thangavel (Age 19)
Kandappodi Pusparasa (age 23)
Kasippillai Sivakumar (age 31)
Kulantaivel Ponnuthurai (age 26)
Kulasekara Selvanayagam (age 26)
Ganapathipillai Nesathurai (age 22)
Gunaratnam Muralitharan (age 21)
Gunaratnam Sudhakaran (age 23)
Duraiyappa Nadesan (age 23)
Thambimuthu Bakiyarasa (27 years old)
Thambirasa Vivekanandan (age 22)
Mayilvaganam Parameswaran (27 years old)
Arumugam Nadesan (age 29)
White powder Thavarasa (age 23)
Enlightenment in Juan (age 22)
Sathasivam Thangathurai (age 23)
Sivanathappillai Thangathurai (age 23)
Weerakutty Thangavel (27 years old)
Varadharasan Varadheeswaran (age 20)
Rasamanikkam Thiyagarasa (age 23)
Ekambaram Tamilvanan (age 19)
Note: – The names and details of all the victims in this incident could not be obtained.
Source: Tamil Massacres 1956 – 2001 Nool.
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