Puthumurippu IDP shelling 30 August 2008
Puthumurippu IDP shelling 30 August 2008
The ongoing movemet of IDPs that began in Mannar in mid 2006 had by August 2008 reached crisis proportion. The number of recent IDPs in Vanni has by then reached 150,000. Puthumurippu in Kilinochchi is one location where these IDPs were crowded in August 2008. Three young families from
Parapukadanthan in Mannar had started their displacement around August 2007. They moved to Kaliyadi in Mannar, then to Paliyaru in Mullaithivu, then to Mulankavil and then to Vannerikulam both in Kilinochchi. They moved to Puthumuruppi in Kilinochchi just ten days prior to the shelling attack on them.
On 30 August Sri Lankan military fired shells fell right in the middle of the three shelters the three families have setup in a piece of land. The resulting carnage was heavy, affecting the young parents and their very young children. Five people from the three families including a one month old baby who was yet to be given a name and a toddler were killed.
Names of victims (name, age)
- Visvanathan Thilakes, 35
- Karuppaih Anantharasa, 28
- Anantharasa Gowtham, 2
- Alahesan Pathmalatha, 28
- Baby, 0
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