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Documented cases of ARBITRARY ARRESTS/DETENTION February 2000 June 2000 (actual arrests higher than documented by TCHR)

No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
***	25/01/00 (left out by oversight in previous report)	Priya Vinoth Sriskandarajah Valarmathi	F M F	16 12	Vasavilan Maha Vidyalayam school and Urumpirai Chandrothaya Vidyalayam sch	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lankan Police while studying in their respective school classrooms. Their mother was also arrested.
***	29/01/00 (left out by oversight in previous report)	Kunarasa Mohan Amirthasakaran Arulrexan	M M	31 30	Jaffna	Jaffna	First man arrested by Sri Lanka army from Urela camp, second man by soldiers from 51-2 Brigade. Family made complaint to government-funded Human Rights Commission.
001	01/02/00	11 Tamil students			Vadamaradchi	Jaffna	Arrested and detained when distributing leaflets. Detained at Valvettithurai Sri Lanka army camp.
002	01/02/00	Seven Tamils			Wellawatte	Colombo	Arrested by Sri Lankan police.
003 004	01/02/00	V. Vijeyanantharajah S. Thiruchelvam	M M	23 22	Santhiveli	Batticaloa	Arrested by Sri Lankan army, then interrogated by the CID (Criminal Investigation Department).
005	02/02/00	150 Tamils			Welikade and Nawale	Colombo	Arrested by Police during search operation, prior to Independence Day celebrations.
006	09/02/00	Sebastian Rajan	M	25	Kudarappu	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lankan army. Detained in Kilaly army camp.
007	09/02/00	Fifteen Tamils			Pettah, and Armour Street	Colombo	Arrested by Sri Lanka police.
008 009	09/02/00	Pakiyanathan Jeyakumar Ambihaipahan	M M	18 17	Nallur	Jaffna	Two students arrested by Sri Lanka Army
010	13/02/00	ConstantineRohan	M	26	Vembadi Junction	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lankan army.
011	13/02/00	Poologasunderam Selvanesan	M	23	Koddadi Market	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lanka army while selling fish.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
012 013	14/02/00	S. Sinnaiah M. Sayanthan	M M		Off shore Katpiddy	Puttlam	Two fishermen arrested by Sri Lanka Navy and kept at Katpiddy police station.
014 015 016 017 018	15/02/00	Selvaratnam Jeyakumar Jesurajah Vinothan C.Amalathas Sebastiampillai thevasuthan Benedict Kirubakaran	M M M M M	24 19 23 23 23	Manal Kadhu and Kudathanai villages	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lanka army soldiers during house to house search operation.
019	21/02/00	Youth			Puliyankandalady	Batticaloa	Arrested by sri Lankan army. Interrogated in Valaichenai army camp.
020	22/02/00	Twenty young Tamil men and women			Mannar	Mannar	Arrested by Sri Lanka army and interrogated at army camp at Railway station road.
021	23/02/00	Pakiyarajah Jeyarupan	M	19	Paandiruppu	Batticaloa	Arrested by Special task force (STF).
022	25/02/00	More than fifty Tamil men	M		Off shore Mannar	Mannar	Arrested by Sri Lankan Navy when fishing. Detained by police at Pesaalai.
023	25/02/00	Civilian	M		Thattumunai	Batticaloa	Arrested when villagers were forced to a public place during search operation.
024	26/02/00	Rasiah Thenmoli	F	31	Vavuniya	Vavuniya	Arrested by TID from Colombo, searched her house took her Colombo Police HQ for interrogation.
025	28/02/00	Twelve persons			Vavuniya	Vavuniya	Detained by Sri Lankan army Intelligence Unit.
026	28/02/00	Twenty two persons			Vavuniya	Vavuniya	Arrested,interrogated by CSU of the Sri Lanka police
027	07/03/00	Two men	M		Pandiruppu	Batticaloa	Tractor owner and its driver arrested by Si Lankan police from Kalmunai.
028	07/03/00	Vekavanam Mayoorathan	M	23	Vavuniya	Vavuniya	Teacher arrested at Bazar Rd by Sri Lankan army who came in a white van. Detained and interrogated.
029	08/03/00	Twenty men	M		Nainamunai	Jaffna	Fishermen arrested by Sri Lankan Army. Detained.
030	12/03/00	Six Tamil men	M		Colombo	Colombo	Arrested by Sri Lankan police.
031	12/03/00	200 people			Attapallam	Ampara	Villagers and agricultural labourers rounded up, arrested and detained by STF from Karativu camp.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
032 033	17/03/00	Vaitilingam Suthaharan Subramaniam Theiventhran	M M		Katunayake Airport	Colombo	Arrested by Sri Lankan Police on arrival, having been deported from European country.
034	21/03/00	Sukanthi Narenthiran	F	30	Kaluwanchikudi	Batticaloa	Arrested by CID from Kandy, detained with her baby
035 036 037 038	22/03/00	K.Kugathasan A.Subramaniapillai Thirunaavukkarasu Raveendran	M M M M		Vavuniya	Vavuniya	The first two men, Sub-Postmasters, and the second two clerks, were arrested by TID (Terrorism Investigation Dept.) while on duty at the Post Office in Vavuniya.
039	22/03/00	Kumarasingam Vishnukumar	M	25	Colombo	Colombo	Sales assistant arrested and detained by police.
040	23/03/00	Three Tamil youths	M		Mutur	Trincomalee	Arrested by Sri Lankan army and interrogated.
041 042 043 044 045 046 047	24/03/00	Keespathy Mohanasuntharam Velmurugu Pullenayagam Sandrasekaram Ravichchandran Selliah Krishnapillai Virakamuthu Rasaretnam Kathirgamar Ratnasingham Krishnapillai Sivamohan	M M M M M M M		Between 13^th Milepost and Malayarkadu	Border of Ampara and Batticaloa	Seven workers arrested on way to work. There was also an eight-year old boy with them who was abandoned when the Sri Lankan army took the seven men into custody. The little boy found his way home, alerted his family and others. Relatives informed Local MP.
048	25/03/00	Tamil man	M		Mutur	Trincomalee	Arrested on way to Mutur by foot for treatment for malaria. Sri Lankan army handed him to police.
049	26/03/00	Five Tamil youths	M		Thaarapuram	Mannar	Arrested by Sri Lankan army and detained.
050 051	08/04/00	Twenty five Tamil youth One young Tamil woman	M F		Keselwatte	Colombo	Arrested by Sri Lankan army and police in combined search operation. Taken to Keselwatte police station for interrogation.
052	18/04/00	Forty Tamils			Udappu	Puttalam	Arrested by Sri Lankan police. Detained at Marawila police station for interrogation.
053 054 055 056	26/04/00	Mahinda Kafoor Menaka Anthony Jeyapalan Arulmala Anthonypillai Mary Josephine Twenty nine civilians	F F F M	18 16 56	Vavuniya	Vavuniya	Arrested and detained by the CSU (Counter Subversive unit). The government funded Human rights Commission was informed.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
057	29/04/00	Eight young Tamils, including two girls			Bambalapitiya	Colombo	Arrested by Sri Lankan police, detained and interrogated in Bambalapitiya Police station.
058	26/05/00	S. M. Nizar	M	23	Kalmunai		Arrested by Special Task Force.
059	27/05/00	More than twenty five persons			Thaandavanveli	Batticaloa	Arrested by Sri Lankan army in search operation. Interrogated in Batticaloa police station.
060	27/05/00	Sarumathy Krishnapillai	F	24	Wattalai	Colombo	Factory worker arrested by Sri Lankan police.
061	27/05/00	Kanapathipillai Kangeswaran	M	34	Manampitty	Polonnaruwa	Arrested by Sri Lankan police
062	27/05/00	Thuraisingham Lakshman	M	18	Vavuniya	Vavuniya	Arrested and detained and 21-1 Brigade HQ.
063	28/05/00	Arul Sathiyanathan	M		Talawakella	Nuwara Eliya	Senior Tamil journalist arrested by sri Lankan police.
064	28/05/00	Yogeswaran Rajkumar	M	18	Pandarikulam	Vavuniya	Arrested by Sri Lankan police.
065 066 067 068 069 070 071	30/05/00	Selvaraj Sreeharan Vadivel Krishnakumar Kthiresan Jeevathas David Arokiyathasan Ramasamy Vijeyakumar Mahenthiran nakenthirakumar Vadivel Suthakar	M M M M M M M	17 18 23 23 25 23 18	Chithamparapuram	Vavuniya	Arrested by Special Task Force and handed over to CSU (Counter Subversive Unit) for interrogation.
072	30/05/00	Twenty five young men, two young women			Colombo	Colombo	Arrested by Sri Lankan army in search operation. Over a thousand businessmen had been lined up.
073	04/06/00	Eight Tamil youths	M		Kokkuvil	Batticaloa	Arrested by Sri Lankan army, interrogated in Batticaloa police station. MP informed.
074	07/06/00	Fifty-eight Tamil youth			Moratuwa	Colombo	University students arrested by Sri Lankan police.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
075	08/06/00	Nagalojan Nagarasa	M M		Uppuveli, 3^rd Milepost	Trincomalee	Students arrested by Sri Lankan Army. On 17^th June Nagalojan was discharged, and Nagarasa rel. on bail.
076	09/06/00	Kanapathipillai makenthiran Pakiyarasa Sivashankar Sivaguru Selvarajah Veerasingham Mallika	F? M M M		Welikande	Polanaruwa	Arrested by Sri Lankan Police. Detained at Anuradhapura Prison.
077	09/06/00	Vickremasingham Sivapalan K Ruthramoorthy Iyathurai Uthayarajah Kathirkamathamby Vimalarakavan Nakamuthu Krupalananthan Nakamuthu Vishvananthan	M M M M M M	29 32 27 23 23 27	Polanaruwa	Polanaruwa	Arrested by Sri Lankan army as they went to work in the paddy fields. Detained in Anuradhapura prison.
078	13/06/00	Twenty five civilians			Muttur	Trincomalee	Arrested by Sri Lankan army and Police in search operation, with masked spotters.

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Documented cases of E.J. KILLINGS / SUMMARY EXECUTIONS - February 2000 June 2000 (actual killings higher than documented by TCHR)

	No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District		Incident
	001	05/02/00	Unidentified person			Trinco harbour	Trincomalee		Decomposed body found floating close to jetty.
	002	08/02/00	Three persons			Pettah, Mapole	Colombo		Killed in two bomb explosions.
	003	14/02/00	Jabir	M		Koutheivu	Trincomalee		Muslim youth shot dead by Sri Lankan police.
	004	21/02/00	Youth	M		Puliyankandalady	Batticaloa		Shot dead by Sri Lankan army.
	005	01/03/00	Anton Sivalingam	M		Jaffna	Jaffna		Member of Jaffna Municipal Council shot dead by unidentified youth.
	006	08/03/00	Woman	F		Thirunakar	Kilinochchi		A woman’s skull and arm bone found in a latrine pit, believed to be of “disappeared” person visiting relatives - when Sri Lanka army controlled area.
	007	10/03/00	Nine persons			Borella	Colombo		Killed in bomb explosion
	008 009	10/03/00	Sithiravelautham Rajeswaran Tamil civilian	M M	19	Anpuvallipuram	Trincomalee		Two youth shot dead by Sri Lankan police. One, a fisherman, father of one child, identified by his wife.
	010	12/03/00	Thangarasa Thuraisingam	M	35	Thirunakar	Kilinochchi		Shot dead by Sri Lankan police.
	011	17/03/00	Two young civilians	M		Chavakachcheri	Jaffna		Shot dead by Sri Lankan police.
	012	17/03/00	Three young civilians	M		Vavunathivu	Batticaloa		Sot dead by sri Lankan army.
	013	21/03/00	Three civilians			Kilinochchi	Kilinochchi		Three human skeletons found, believed to be remains of people killed some time ago by Sri Lanka army.
	014	25/03/00	Civilian			Urithirapuram	Kilinochchi		Skeleton found in waste pit area, believed to be civilian killed by SL army when it controlled area.
	015 016 017	27/03/00	Kumarasamy Sritharan Sritharan Yogeswary Sivalingam Ganeshalingam	M F M	40 38 24	Iththaavil	Jaffna		While returning from hospital with newly born baby, couple, and driver, shot dead by Sri Lanka army fire. The baby survived, as also did Yogeswary’s sister.
No.		Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
	018	28/03/00	Velsamy Raja	M	38	Kalubowila	Colombo		Fisherman died in custody of injuries inflicted by Sri Lankan Navy, who beat and assaulted him.
	019	01/04/00	Rasalingam Sriranjani Rajeswary	F		Pallai	Jaffna		Died in Pallai hospital from wounds caused by army shelling. Emergency treatment given in vain.
	020 021 022 023	05/04/00	Srilalitha C. Kanapathipillai M. Vallipillai S. Domil Rilda	M M M M	70 75 70 46	Chempiyanpattu	Jaffna		Killed in Sri Lanka Army shelling of Catholic Church, where these refugees and other refugees had sought safety.
	024	07/04/00	Four Tamil civilians			Aralaganwila	Polonnaruwa		Killed by Sri Lankan police.
	025	08/04/00	Two youth			Eluthtoor	Mannar		Killed by Sri lanka army.
	026	11/04/00	Three youth			Mannar	Mannar		Bodies found, near police station, shot in the head.
	027	12/04/00	Seven civilians, including a Priest.			Trincomalee	Trincomalee		Killed in indiscriminate firing by Sri Lankan forces.
	028	15/04/00	Chrishtie Cruz	M	26	Panangkattikottil	Mannar		Fisherman shot dead by Sri Lankan Navy.
	029 030	26/04/00	Arulanantham Arulraj Mariyanayakam Jude	M M	22 17	Chundikulam	Jaffna		Fishermen killed in their boats by Sri Lanka Navy gunfire.
	031 032	28/04/00	Alakuthurai Thirukumaran Rajenthiram Kirupakaran	M M	20 26	Ilakkanthai	Trincomalee		Killed in their fishing village, by Sri Lankan Navy shelling.
	033	12/05/00	Three adult civilians, two children			Pallikudah			Killed by Sri Lankan Air Force Kfir bombing
	034	15/05/00	Santhanam Kandeepan	M	30	Jaffna	Jaffna		Shot dead by unidentified youths
	035	17/05/00	Fourteen civilians			Batticaloa	Batticaloa		Killed in bomb explosion
	036	19/05/00	Fifteen civilians			Kaithady	Jaffna		Killed in Sri Lankan army shelling home for elderly.
	037	22/05/00	Four civilians			Madduvil	Jaffna		Killed by Sri Lankan Air Force bombing.
	038	24/05/00	Six civilians			Kallady	Batticaloa		Killed due to Sri Lanka Army shelling.
	039	26/05/00	Viswalingam Ariyanayagam	M M		Maravanpulavu	Jaffna		Killed by Sri Lanka Air Force, using Kfir aircraft.
	040 041	26/05/00	Sivanesan Annaimary Infant son	F M		Madduvil Sivankovilady	Jaffna		Young mother and baby killed when Sri Lankan army shelled her house.
No.		Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
	042	27/05/00	Ganesasivam Niranjan	M	24	Madduvil South	Jaffna		Killed when Sri Lankan army shelled his village.
	043 044 045	02/06/00	K. Pirapaharan Victor Sebamalai Three Tamil young men	25		Mannar	Mannar		Five young men shot dead by Sri Lankan army. The first, a school teacher was identified by his sister. The second was identified by his brother.
	046	07/06/00	Ganesh Chandrakanthan	M		Kantalai	Trincomalee		Killed in police custody. Reported by AI.
	047	07/06/00	C.V. Gooneratne Twenty persons			Ratmalana	Colombo		Killed in bomb explosion.
	048	09/06/00	Six civilians			Maduvil, Sarasalai	Jaffna		Killed by Sri Lanka Air Force bombings, Kfir jets.
	049	11/06/00	Rasammah Sabaratnam	F		Madduvil	Jaffna		Killed when Sri Lanka army shelled area she lived in.
	050	17/06/00	Murukan Mahalingam	M	50	Madduvil	Jaffna		Killed in Sri Lankan army shelling.

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Documented cases of Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances - February 2000 June 2000 (actual disappearances higher than documented by TCHR)

	No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District
	001	½/00	Jenad Nimalraj	M	19	Jaffna	Jaffna		Reported missing.
	002 003	03/02/00	Sijitha Ariyaratnam Mohanakanthi	F F	22 20	Kodikamam	Jaffna		Reported missing since 11 January by relatives, to the HRC. Never returned from brief trip to shops.
	004 005	09/02/00	Vijeyamalar Thavarasa Thushanthan Thavarasa	F M	32	Jaffna	Jaffna		Mother and son reported missing to HRC, by relatives, since 30 January.
	006 007 008 009	20/02/00	Samsudeen Abdul Manaf Manaf Hussain Manaf Sajaham Manaf Naleen	M M M M	49 19 27 23	Kuchchaveli	Trincomalee		Reported missing since 17^th February, after not returning from fishing. The relatives of this Muslim family of father and three sons informed ICRC, Police and Navy.
	010	20/03/00	Mahalingam Thivakaralingam	M	27	Mulliyawalai	Mullaithivu		Education Department worker left to visit relatives in Vavuniya. Never arrived. Reported missing.
	011 012 013 014 015	21/02/00	Antonipillai Raveendran Soosaipillai Pratheepan Maruthanayakam Velummaylam S. Nadeesakumar Simyon Jacob	M M M M M	44 21 25 30 25	Silavathurai coastal village	Mannar		Fishermen reported missing 17 February since their boats were attacked by Sri Lankan Navy. Mannar GA, ICRC and Bishop informed by relatives. The relatives fear they were arrested by Sri Lanka army and detained.
	016	24/02/00	Vairamuthu Jayakili	M		Pigeon Island	Trincomalee		Arrested by Sri Lanka Navy, who denied it. Father with two children, expecting a third. AI issued a UA.
	017	25/02/00	Eighteen men	M		Pallimunai	Mannar		These fishermen went out fishing with permission and never returned. Mannar Citizens’ committee reported it to relevant authorities.
No.		Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
	018	03/03/00	Sangarapillai Balachandran	M	29	Jaffna	Jaffna		Went to police station to renew his residence pass and never returned. Reported missing.
	019 020 021	05/03/00	Kandasamy Indran Shanmuathevan Alles Sajeev Thirugnanam	M M M	18 19 30	Jaffna	Jaffna		Last seen talking together in the town. Never returned home. Reports missing.
	022	14/03/00	Kalimuththu Kovintharajah	M	25	Vepankulam	Vavuniya		Abducted from his house. The abductors came in unmarked white van relatives said. Reported missing.

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Documented cases of RAPE/TORTURE and OTHERS February 2000 June 2000 (actual rape/torture, etc higher than documented)

	No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District		Incident
	001	02/02/00	Thambirasa Arudchelvam	M	22	CSU Colombo	Colombo		Severely tortured while in custody of CSU. Judicial Medical Officer confirmed reports of severe torture.
	002	02/02/00	Three persons			Urugodawatte	Colombo		Injured in bomb explosion.
	003	02/02/00	Twenty persons			Banduragala	Kurunegale		Injured in bomb explosion.
	004	02/02/00	Ten persons			Kadawatte	Colombo		Injured in bomb explosion.
	005	07/02/00	Thirty five persons			Bible			Injured in bomb explosion.
	006	08/02/00	Forty-three persons			Pettah and Mapole	Colombo		Injured in bomb explosions.
	007	08/02/00	Ratnam Sivakumar	M		Urelu -Army camp	Jaffna		Jaffna District Judge established he had been subjected to severe torture in army camp.
	008	11/02/00	Tamil Muslim boy	M		Muttur	Trincomalee		Sexually assaulted by two policemen.
	009 010 011	13/02/00	Seevaratnam Annalauxmy Kanakaratnam Kanthavanam A. Seevaratnam	M M M	37 45 70	Akkaraipattu	Ampara		Injured by random shooting by police. Admitted to Amparai hospital.
	012 013 014	19/02/00	S. Rajaratnam Rajika Ranitha	M F F	42 9 7	Siththandy	Batticaloa		Injured by Sri Lankan army random shooting. Taken to Eravour hospital then to Batticaloa hospital.
	015	03/03/00	Young Tamil woman	F		Point Pedro	Jaffna		Raped by three Sri Lanka army soldiers. Admitted to Manthikai hospital in unconscious state.
	016	06/03/00	Subramanium Thiruketheeswaran	M	19	Mandoor	Batticaloa		Injured by Special Task Force gunfire. Admitted to Batticaloa hospital.
	017	07/03/00	Twenty four Tamil fishermen	M		Kurunagar	Jaffna		Injured by Sri Lanka Navy beatings. Some treated in Jaffna hospital.
	018	08/03/00	Sinnathurai Vijeyaroopan Thambiratnam Rajikanthan	M M		Jaffna	Jaffna		Assaulted and injured by Sri Lanka army in Urelu camp.
	019	10/03/00	Thirty six people			Borella	Colombo		Injured in bomb explosion
No.		Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
	020	17/03/00	Two Tamil students	M		Madduvil	Jaffna		Injured by gunshot from Sri Lanka Police. Admitted to Jaffna hospital.
	021	17/03/00	Sithamabarananthan Kirubakaran	M	28	Batticaloa	Batticaloa		Judicial Medical Officer confirms severe torture during detention in CSU.
	022	26/03/00	Ponnuthurai Kathirasipillai	F	52	Vaalkaipetran Kandal	Mannar		Seriously injured by Sri Lankan security forces fire. Admitted to Vavuniya hospital.
	023	26/03/00	Twenty civilians			Point Pedro	Jaffna		Injured in Sri Lanka army shelling.
	024 025 026 027	º/00	Chellaiah Nandakumar Ponnaiah Logaraja Appakutti Revathy Chellathurai Kamalajini	M M M M	36 38 28 20	Pallai	Jaffna		Injured by Sri Lankan army shelling. Admitted after difficulty journey, to Jaffna Hospital.
	028	æ/00	G. Nadesan	M		Batticaloa	Batticaloa		Senior Tamil journalist house damaged in grenade attack. He had received threats for his reporting.
	029	05/04/00	Eleven civilians			Chempiyanpattu	Jaffna		Injured when Sri Lanka army shelled a catholic church in which refugees sought safety.
	030	25/04/00	Seventeen civilians			Krankulam	Batticaloa		Injured by STF Special task Force commandos during search operation. Three admitted to hospital.
	031	28/04/00	Tharmalingam Kunanayakam	M	30	Ilakkanthai	Trincomalee		Injured when Sri Lanka Navy shelled fishing village.
	032	17/04/00	Forty-two persons			Batticaloa	Batticaloa		Injured in bomb explosion
	033	19/05/00	Thirty one persons			Kaithady	Jaffna		Injured when home for elderly people was bombed by Sri Lankan army.
	034	21/05/00	Eight civilians			Madduvil	Jaffna		Injured in bombing by Sri Lanka Air Force jets.
	035	24/03/00	Three civilians			Kallady	Batticaloa		Injured by Sri Lankan Air Force bombing.
	036	25/05/00	Seven civilians			Thenmaradchi	Jaffna		Injured in Sri Lankan Army shelling of villages. Transported by MSF to Vavuniya hospital.
	037	26/05/00	Eighteen wounded			Maravanpulavu	Jaffna		Injured in bombing by Sri Lanka Air Force Kfir jets.
	038	27/05/00	Thushyanthi		27	Madduvil South	Jaffna		Injured in Sri Lanka army shelling.
No.		Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
	039	27/05/00	Nine civilians			Thenmaradchi	Jaffna		Injured in Sri Lanka army shelling of several villages. Transported to Vavuniya hospital by MSF.
	040 041	28/05/00	Kala Alakaiah Kubenthini Thillainathan	F F	18 18	Maavadivembu	Batticaloa		Injured by sri Lankan army assaulting them in custody. Admitted to hospital by prison officials..
	042 043 044 045	29/05/00	Thaventhiran Jeyarajaratnam Sivaganeswary Thaventhiran Anpumainthan Koureesan Kathirkamanathan	M F M M	51 48 8 25	Madduvil South	Jaffna		Injured by Sri Lanka army shelling. The first two are parents of the eight year old boy. MSF (Medecins sans Frontieres) transferred them to Vavuniya hospital from Mallavi.
	046	07/06/00	Twenty seven persons			Colombo	Colombo		Injured in bomb explosion.
	047	08/06/00	Poopalaratnam Arulramesh Sinnathamby Pradeepan Gunasekaran Sarhiyaseelan Samithamby	M M M M		Kantalai police station	Trincomalee		Labourers arrested 4^th June, taken to Kantalai police station. Severely tortured according to AI. First has difficulty walking. Second man was seen bleeding from the mouth, and open wounds on his shoulders. Fifth man was killed in custody. See: Killings no 046
	048	09/06/00	More than five hundred civilians			Madduvil area	Jaffna		Injured due to bombing by the Sri Lankan army. Bishop of Mannar appealed to Foreign missions.
	049	11/06/00	Gnanachanthira Iyer Uthachanthira Sharma. One civilian	M M		Madduvil	Jaffna		Two men, (the first is priest of Maruthadipillayer Temple) were injured due to shelling by Sri Lanka army. Both admitted to Kilinochchi hospital.
	050	16/06/00	Navaratnam Rohini	F	20	Mirusuvil	Jaffna		Seriously injured in shelling by Sri Lankan army. Admitted to Kilinochchi hospital
	051	24/06/00	Tharmalingam Vinodharan	M	10	Maravanpullam	Jaffna		Little boy lost both hands when unidentified explosive detonated. Taken to Mallavi hospital, then admitted to Vavuniya hospital for surgery.
	052	26/06/00	Nagaraja Vamanaeswaram	M	17	Trincomalee	Trincomalee		Arrested at Kaddaiparichchan army camp on his way to Muttur town . Detained in Trincomalee Police HQ where he sustained serious injuries, during interrogation. Admitted to army hospita

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Documented cases of ARBITRARY ARRESTS/DETENTION July 99 to January 2000 (actual arrests higher than documented by TCHR)

No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
001 002	28/06/99	Manikkavel Vijayadharshan Kalimuthu Ranjithakumar	M M		Murakoddanch-chenai	Batticaloa	Arrested by Sri Lankan Army
003	02/07/99	Two displaced people			Pallimunai	Mannar	Arrested by Sri Lankan Police
004 005 006	07/07/99	Soosai Michael Kasmir Boniface John Bosco Paulsami Ramachandran	M M M	45 45	Mannar	Mannar	Arrested by Sri Lankan Navy
007 008	07/07/99	Murugesu Illango Vettivel Arulpirakasam	M M		Kaluwanchikudi	Batticoloa	Arrested by Sri Lankan Army
009	08/07/99	Twenty -four people including two women			Wellawatta	Colombo	Detained by Sri Lankan Police during search operation
010	08/07/99	Sixty-seven Tamils			Colombo fort Railway station	Colombo	Detained by Sri Lankan security forces during search operation
011	12/07/99	A youth ??	M		Trincomalee	Trincomalee	Arrested by Sri Lankan Police
012	12/07/99	Eight men	M		Veppankulam	Vavuniya	Arrested by Sri Lankan Police
013 014	13/07/99	Nagarajah Koneswaran Thaangarajah Nadanasabesan	M M		Batticoloa	Batticoloa	University students arrested by Sri Lankan Police
015 016 017	16/07/99	Kumarasamy Visvalingam Kanapathipillai Ketharam Ahamedlebbe Abdul Samoon	M M M		Ambilanthurai	Batticaloa	Arrested by The Sri Lankan Special Task Force
018 019 020	16/07/99	Kandiah Sivananthan Kandasamy Ramesh Kanapathipillai	M M M		Batticoloa	Batticoloa	Fishermen, arrested by Sri Lankan Police
021	18/07/99	Uthan	M		Kovinthan Road	Batticoloa	Employee of ICRC, arrested by Sri Lankan Army
022 023	22/07/99	Balakrishnan Niranjan Sachchithanandan Selvamathan	M M	21 17	Kalmunai	Ampara	Arrested by Sri Lankan Special Task Force
024	23/07/99	Sri Arasaretnam Senthinathakurukkal	M		Akkaraipattu		The chief priest of a Hindu temple, arrested by Sri Lankan Police
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
025	27/07/99	Sixteen Tamil youths			Mathala		Arrested by Sri Lankan police
026	31/07/99	Eight Tamils			Alimudakku	Kandy	Arrested by Sri Lankan Police.
027	01/08/99	Eight Tamils			Jaffna	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lankan security forces during the month of July 99. Reported by HRC
028	02/08/99	Moothathaby Uthayakumar	M		Naavatkudu	Jaffna	A teacher at the Kadukkamunai Vaani Vidyalayam arrested by Sri Lankan Army, as he was visiting relatives
029	04/08/99	Sivalingam Vijtharan	M	28	Kiraan	Batticaloa	The Manager of the Kiraan Multi Purpose Co-operative society, arrested by Sri Lankan Army, and held by the 23-1 Brigade of the Sri Lankan army
030	04/08/9	Twenty Tamil youths			Nilaveli-Gopalapuram	Trincomalee	Arrested by Sri Lankan Army in a cordon and search operation
031 032 033 034 035	09/08/99	Ramalingam Gajalukshmi Rasentheram Valarmathy Santhalingam Malini Puvenendiram Kavitharangini Theiventhiram Nirmaladevi	21 31 28 27	F F F F F	Jaffna	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lankan Army. Kavitharangini and Nimalaveni were blindfolded and taken away by army truck.
036	08/08/99	Jayakumar	M	19	Kaithady	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lankan Army, after his recent discharge from Jaffna hospital where he had received treatment for injuries inflicted by the Sri Lankan army in an indiscriminate attack on civilians at Nunavil
037	10/08/99	Nine persons			Batticaloa	Batticaloa	Arrested in Batticaloa Central market by Sri Lankan Army and military Trained Police. Five were women.
038	10/08/99	Five persons			Kumankadu	Vavuniya	Arrested by Sri Lankan Army
039	10/08/99	Selvarani Paramesweran	F	42	Kaithady	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lankan Army
040	11/08/99	Kulasegaram	F	37	Chavakachcheri	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lankan Army
041	12/08/99	Krishnapillai Pavalakesan	M	26	Batticaloa	Batticaloa	Local NGO employee arrested by Sri Lankan army at sentry point near SLA camp on Pioneer Road. ICRC and HRC informed.
042	12/08/99	Thambinayakam Sribalu	M	27	Batticaloa	Batticaloa	Journalist arrested by Sri Lankan army when inquiring at army camp about Pavalakesan’s arrest.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
043	13/08/99	Ten Tamil youths			Batticaloa	Batticaloa	Arrested by Sri Lankan army. The youths were picked randomly from the streets, leaving bicycles by the roadside. Detained in Kovinthan Road army camp.
044	13/08/99	Krishnapillai Perinpam			Matale	Kandy	Hindu Priest arrested by Sri Lankan Police when carrying out duties at Balamurugan Temple. Detained at Naula police station
045	13/08/99	Five refugees			Pesaalai	Mannar	Arrested by Sri Lankan Army and military Trained Police from refugee camp.
046	13/08/99	Pramanathan Navaratnam	M	24	Chunnakam	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lankan Army
047	14/08/99	Twenty -one Tamil Youths			Batticaloa town	Batticaloa	Arrested by Sri Lankan Army and taken to Covington Road army camp for interrogation. Several were injured by army personnel
048	14/08/99	Santhirasekaram Kirupakaran	M		Batticaloa	Batticaloa	Arrested by Sri Lankan army and detained at Covington Road army camp
049	Between 11/08/99 and 14/08/99	More than hundred youths			Batticaloa town and suburbs	Batticaloa	Arrested by Sri Lankan Army
050 052 053 054 055	18/08/99	Thurupapathan Suganthaladevi Athiparasekaram Sasikalathevi Sivanantharasa Sarvakalathevi Sutharalingam Naguleswaray Logitharasa Sivanantharasa	26 19 20 47 30	F F F F M	Gurunagar	Jaffna	Arrested in refugee camp by Sri Lankan Army and detained at Kankesanthurai detention centre.
056	18/08/99	Three Tamil school pupils			Jaffna	Jaffna	Arbitrarily detained by EPDP, a paramilitary group working with the Sri Lankan army.
057	23/08/99	Two Hundred and Ten Tamil young persons			Wellwathe,Bambalapitya, Kotahena and Pettah	Colombo	Arrested by Sri Lankan Police in a search operation
058 059 060 061	27/08/99	Amaladaas Gajamogan Thanigasalam Nandanan Sivamogan	M M M M	24 25 25 25	Colombo	Colombo	Undergraduates from the University of Moratuwa, including the son of the Director of Education of Jaffna, arrested by the Sri Lankan army. Detained in Nugegoda Police station.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
062	27/08/99	Antonythas	M	34	Kachcheri	Mannar	Arrested by Sri Lankan Police, the driver of the Mannar GA was detained first in Mannar, then Vavuniva and finally taken to Mt Lavinia, Colombo for interrogation
063	01/09/00	S.M.Cruz	M		Colombo	Colombo	He is the Government Agent of Mannar district. Detained by police in Colombo. Filed a Fundamental Rights application in the Supreme Court through his counsel.
064 065	03/09/99	Navajothy Sinnarasa S. Kamalanathan	F M		Batticaloa	Batticaloa	Two teachers from the Batticaloa Teacher Training College arrested by the CID on orders of CID in Kandy. Detained in Batticaloa. Principal of the College notified local MP, and ICRC.
066	06/09/99	P. Selvaraja	M		Chemmani	Jaffna	President of the Jaffna Missing Persons Guardian Association arrested by army personnel, as he observed the clearing of the mass grave site at Chemmani. Jaffna District judge Illancheliyan reprimanded Sri Lanka army Commander and Maj General for interfering in Chemmani court proceedings, saying the arrest was an attempt to disrupt the investigations.
067	11/09/99	Kanthalingam Pratheepan	M		Naayanmaarkaddu	Jaffna	Youth arrested when he went to Mudamarathady Sri Lanka army camp at Kalviyankadu to enquire his father’s whereabouts. His father had been arrested early in the morning, and was released when his son came, who in turn was arrested.
068	19/09/99	Son of Mrs Ponnambalam	M		Peythaalai	Batticaloa	Teenage boy arrested by Sri Lankan Army and detained. Since his arrest his mother and sister have been harassed by SLA. See Degrading treatment section, Sep 30.
069	20/09/99	Vallipuram Arunthavarasa	M	45	Vavuniya	Vavuniya	Driver of the Peoplised Transport Board, Vavuniya, detained by CSU (Conter-Subversive Unit) of the Sri Lankan Poice.
070	20/09/99	Over 500 youth			Mannar	Mannar	Cordon and Search operation leading to large-scale arbitrary arrest of Tamil youngsters by Sri Lankan police
071	23/09/99	35 Tamil people			Pettah	Colombo	13 young people arrested in a first search operation then another 22 Tamils arrested in another operation.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
072	01/10/99	Rajapakse Nelson	M	17	Kaluwanchikudy	Batticaloa	Arrested by STF while staying at his uncle’s home.
073	01/10/99	Mylvaganam Sivalingam			Batticaloa	Batticaloa	Bus driver arrested by Sri Lanka army on his way home from work.
074	01/10/99	25 youth	M		Dambulla	Matale Anuradhapura border	Arrested by Sri Lankan police at a cultural event they were attending. They had travelled from Trincomalee, Vavuniya and Batticaloa for the event.
075	03/10/99	Savarimuththu Innasimuththu	M		Naavalady	Batticaloa	Father of five children arrested by Sri Lanka army, and transferred to Counter Subversive Unit (CSU) for interrogation
076 077	04/10/99	Uthayakumari Kathirkasamythamby	F	42	Koddaimunai Bridge	Batticaloa	Arrested by Sri Lankan police at check point.
078	06/10/99	Four youths	M		Valaichenai	Batticaloa	Arrested by Sri Lanka Army, which regularly searches villages in this area.
079	06/10/99	Suppaiah Saharajah Ahamed Leppai	M M	26 30	Eravur market	Batticaloa	Arrested by Sri Lanka police and detained at Eravur police station.
080	09/10/99	50 Tamil civilians			Akkaraipattu	Ampara	Workers from a rice-mill arrested by Sri Lanka Police
081 082 083	09/10/99	Nakappan Sivapatham Joyel Pathmanathan civilian	M M M	49	Muttur	Trincomalee	Three fishermen arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy, in boat, as they were fishing 100 metres from shore.
084	11/10/99	One hundred civilians			Wellawatta Bambalapitya Dematagoda	Colombo	Tamils arrested by Sri Lankan police in house to house cordon and search operation, in the evening. Hundreds more were interrogated at the police stations in Colombo.
085	15/10/99	Several hundred civilians			Pettah	Colombo	Mass arrests in Colombo of Tamils at night, by Sri Lankan Army. 75 Tamils were detained and interrogated. Even those who were registered with police were arrested.
086	18/10/99	Two men	M		Kannakipuram	Batticaloa	Arrested by Sri Lankan army. Severely assaulted.
087	18/10/99	Sixty civilians	M F		Kotahena Maradana	Colombo	Arrested by Sri Lanka Army in early evening. Five Tamil women among those arrested.
088	19/10/99	Samythambi Parameswaran	M	32	Eravur	Batticaloa	Father of two children, arrested by Sri Lankan Police then detained at Eravur police station.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
089 090 091	20/10/99	Sellathurai Senthuran Iyathurai Paskaran Anatharasa Arulrasa	M M M	19 20 26	Kudaththanai	Vadamarachchi East, Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lankan Army in early morning who came in tractors to the village. Detained at St. Pedro SLA camp, interrogated and tortured.
092 093	23/10/99	Rasamani Pavananthan Kantharasa Uthayasooriyan	M M		Alaveddi East	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lankan Army. Relatives reported to HRC
094	25/10/99	Selavanayagam Suganthan	M		Jaffna	Jaffna	Arts Faculty student, of Jaffna University, arrested by Sri Lankan Army. Vice-Chancellor of University made enquiries to SLA.
095 096	26/10/99	Markkandu Krishanthan Satkunam Rajenthiran	M M	21 23	Jaffna	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lankan army
097	26/10/99	Krishnapillai Vijeyakumar	M		Point Pedro	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lanka Army
098	26/10/99	Thambiaiyaa Kanthasamy	M	55	Inuvil	Jaffna	Arrested by sri Lanka Army
099	27/10/99	Thevarasa Sinnathamby	F	40	Mandoor	Batticaloa	Arrested by Special Task Force.
100	27/10/99	Dr. V. Dayanantharajah	M		Akkaraipattu	Batticaloa	Detained by Sri Lankan Police. He had treated injured people after an attack.
101 102 103 104 105	28/10/99	Iyathurai Paskaran Sellathurai Senthuran Anandarajah Arulthas Selvnayagam Sukanthan Periyan Navaratnarajah			Jaffna	Jaffna	In detention in Kankesanthurai detention centre after arrest by Sri Lanka Army.
106	31/10/99	S. Senthurajah	M		Akkaraipattu	Batticaloa	Local welfare organisation’s co-ordinator arrested by Sri Lankan Police and interrogated.
107	09/11/99	Shanmugalingam Uthayaleela	F	21	Gurunagar	Jaffna	Arrested at Gurunagar refugee camp by Sri Lankan security forces.
108	09/11/99	Iyathurai Selvaranee	F	50	Madduvil, Thenmarachi	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lankan Army.
109	14/11/99	Theivendran Thayalan	M	17	Jaffna	Jaffna	Arrested by sri Lankan army. Detained at Urelu army camp.
110	17/11/99	Yogaratnam Puvitharan	M	17	Mirusuvil	Jaffna	Detained at EPDP office in Chavakachcheri. He had been reported missing but was located at the EPDP office on 02 December.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
111	17/11/99	Manuwel Appu	M	40	Navanthurai	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lanka army and detained at 51-2 Brigade SL army camp in Jaffna.
112 113	18/11/99	Pathmini Erampamoorthy Sharmila Shanmugam	F F	19 21	Gurunagar	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lankan Army. Detained and interrogated at 51-2 Brigade camp in Jaffna.
114 115 116	20/11/99	Thankathurai Kanatharajah Puvaneswaran Rubans Sinnathurai Suthan	M M M	18 20 19	Erlalai	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lanka Army. Detained and interrogated at Urelu Sri Lanka army camp.
117	23/11/99	P. Sivakumar	M	21	Chavakachcheri	Jaffna	Young man who looked after the premises of Chavakacheri Hindu College at night-times, arrested, interrnedogated and asaulted by the Sri Lanka army.
118	01/12/99	Muthurasa Pirapakaran	M	20	Peythalai	Batticaloa	Detained, interrogated and injured by Sri Lankan Army, held at Valachenai Harbour View Sri Lanka Army camp.
119	03/01/00	Twenty Tamil youths	M		Karaithivu, Kalmunai.	Ampara	Arbitrary detention of these twenty young people by Special Task Force, during cordon and search operation. They were interrogated and later released.
120	06/01/00	Around one hundred and fifty Tamils			Pettah	Colombo	Arrested in a cordon and search operation conducted by the Sri Lankan Army and the Police jointly.
121	07/01/00	More than one thousand Tamil people			Bambalapitiya, Borella, Dehivala, Kotehena, Pettah, Maradane and Wellawatte.	Colombo	Cordon and search operation in several suburban areas of Colombo, where the majority of residents are Tamil people. Sri Lankan Police, Army, Navy and Airforce made mass arrests. Videotapes and photographs were taken of those arrested, and masked informers were used to identify people suspected of being LTTE members.
122	09/01/00	Forty eight persons	M F		Merigane and Nugegode	Colombo	Arrested during cordon and search operation, detained and interrogated. 24 persons were released on 11 January, the remaining persons were detained for further interrogation.
123	10/01/00	Eighteen youth	M		Welikade	Colombo	Sri Lankan army and Police arrested 18 young people. Detained and interrogated at the Welikade police station.
124	12/01/00	Balasuntharam Balasankar	M	19	Jaffna	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lanka Army and detained at SLA’s 51-2 Brigade HQ, Jaffna.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
125	16/01/00	Three youths	M		Kandhalady, Vaakarai	Batticaloa	Arrested by sri Lankan Army.
126	21/01/00	Ten youths	M		Natpittymunai, Kalmunai	Ampara	Arrested by Special Task Force. Detained and interrogated at the STF camp at Karathivu.
127	22/01/00	Over 2000 Tamil people			Kolonnawa And neighbouring Gampaha	Colombo	Arrested, detained and interrogated at police stations in Colombo. Sri Lanka Army and Police from other areas were brought in to Colombo to carry out a joint cordon and search operation which started in the early hours, and lasted for the duration of a curfew lasting ten hours.
128	22/01/00	Thirty young men and women	M F		Wellawatte	Colombo	Arrested in house to house search operation by Special Task Force and CID.
129	24/01/00	Thousands of Tamil civilians in Pachanoor, Pattithidal, Periyaveli, Munam Podi Vettai ;			Bharaithipuram, Manachchenai, Menkamam,	Trincomalee	Villagers from the Mutur area to the North of Trincomalee, arbitrarily detained and interrogated by Sri Lanka Army and Police.
130	30/01/00	Two Tamil persons			Off the coast of Pallimunai	Mannar	Arrested by Sri Lankan Navy for carrying items, banned by the Sri Lanka government’s embargo of household ad essential items to the North. Batteries, petrol and tyres were being transported by these people to sell to others.
***	21/11/97 (left out by an oversight in previous report)	Varithamby Tharmakulaseelan Raja THIS ONE NEEDS CHECKING TO SEE IF INCLUDED IN TCHR REPORT TO UN COMM.1998	M		Wellawatte	Colombo	Arbitrary arrest at his home. A Fundamental Rights application was made by this detainee. The Supreme Court ruled, 4^th October ‘99 that the Sri Lankan Police had acted arbitrarily and without proper verification of information.
***	1999 (left out by an oversight in previous reports)	Balasuntharam	M		Jaffna	Jaffna	Arrested in Jaffna. Detained in Kalutara prison. His son was arrested on January 12 2000.
***	11/06/99 (left out by an oversight in previous report)	Balasubramanium Iyer Srinivasa Sarma Annapoorani, his wife	M F		Muneeswaran Temple Chilaw	Puttalam	Hindu priest and his wife arrested by the Sri Lankan Police. Taken into custody.

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Documented cases of E.J. KILLINGS / SUMMARY EXECUTIONS - July 99 to January 2000 (actual killings higher than documented by TCHR)

No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
001	04/07/99	Kannapan Shunmugalingam	M	25	Kiran	Batticaloa	Killed in Sri Lankan Army mortar bombing
002	06/07/99	Velayuthapillai Panchalingam	M	19	Thattankulam Junction	Jaffna	Shot dead by Sri Lankan army
003	06/07/99	Four civilians			Ratmalgahawela	Amparai	Shot dead by unidentified gunmen
004	12/07/99	Ida Hamilitta	F	21	Pallimunai	Batticaloa	Raped ,then shot dead by Sri Lankan Army personnel
005	14/07/99	two civilians			Batticaloa	Batticaloa	Killed in a bomb explosion
006	15/07/99	Unidentified man	M		Vidaththalthivu	Mannar	Killed by Sri Lankan Army
007	19/07/99	Selvarajah	M		Ralkulai-Navaladi	Muttur	Fisherman killed by Sri Lankan Navy
008	20/07/99	A youth	M		Kaluthaavalai	Batticaloa	Shot dead by Sri Lankan Special Task Force
009	20/07/99	Two youths			Pesaalai	Mannar	Shot dead by Sri Lankan Special Task Force, near Murugan Temple
010	20/07/99	A Civilian	F	40	Mannar	Mannar	Woman’s body washed ashore, found by fishermen
011	21/07/99	Abusaali Julia	F	34	Eravur	Batticaloa	Stabbed and Killed by suspected members of a Muslim extremist group
012 013 014	23/08/99	Thevan Sathes Mathyaparanam Five further civilian patients	M M M	65 09	Vanni	Vanni	Eight deaths due to lack of ambulance service to transport to hospital and closure of route by Sri Lankan army. Thevan died of food poisoning, the nine-year old died of heart complaint, Mathayaparanam died of diadetic related problems and blood pressure.
015	25/07/99	Sevarajah Uthayakumar	M	08	Kilinochchi	Kilinochchi	Displaced child refugee killed in an air attack by Sri Lankan Air Force
016	29/07/99	Two civilians	M F		Madhu	Mannar	Shot and knifed by Sri Lankan Army Raped and killed by Sri Lankan Army
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
017	01/08/99	Sinnathampy Selvagopal	M	53	Pandiyankulam	Vanni	Father of four children killed in artillery shell attack by Sri Lankan Army
018	11/08/99	Thuraisamy Wintston Antony Jude	M M	45 45	Siruthivu	Jaffna	Fishermen who were fishing off the coast South west of Jaffna shot dead by Sri Lankan Army
019	14/08/99	Kanthalingam Jeganathan	M	21	Batticaloa	Batticaloa	Killed by Sri Lankan Army
020	15/08/99	Parasivam Sivayohan	M	24	Koduvamadu	Batticaloa	Shopkeeper killed by Sri Lankan Army
021	20/08/99	A civilian			Thavasikulam	Vavuniya	Killed by Sri Lankan Army
022	22/08/99	Six civilians			Padaviya	Trincomalee	Four men and two women shot dead by military trained homeguards.
023	25/08/99	Dineash Rasalingam	F	02	Vavuniya	Vavuniya	Infant killed by gunshot wounds to the head fired by Sri Lankan Army, as she was sleeping
024	05/09/99	Civilian	M		Tharakulam junction	Mannar	Eye witness reported seeing the man brought by Sri Lankan police, blindfolded, and shot in the head three times, killing him immediately.
025	05/09/99	Vinayakamoorthy Yoharani	F	27	Kumaraveliyar	Batticaloa	Sri Lanka Army prevented Yoharini, mother of four, from going to hospital to give birth. She died of complications after giving birth at home. Her baby died on 07/09/99 on admission to hospital.
026	07/09/99	Rohana Kumara	M		Colombo	Colombo	Newspaper editor known for anti-government writing killed by unidentified gunmen
027	07/09/99	Two civilians			Chemmani	Jaffna	Two skeletons (1,2) found by investigators into the mass graves, at the Sri Lanka army checkpoint site
028	08/09/99	One civilian			Chemmani	Jaffna	Human skull (3) found five feet from where the two skeletons were found on 07/09/99
029	09/09/99	Three civilians	M		Chemmani	Jaffna	Three skeletons (4,5,6) found near Chemmani road junction. Two are man and wife, beaten to death by Sri Lankan army Lt. Dunuwila with a mammotty. She had been raped.
030	09/09/99	Two civilians			Vaddakachchi	Vanni	Killed by Sri Lankan Air force bombing in residential area
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
031	11/09/99	Civilian	F		Chemmani	Jaffna	Skeleton (7) found behind Sri Lanka army checkpoint near Chemmani junction, site ‘B’, by investigators
032	13/09/99	Civilian	M		Chemmani	Jaffna	Skeleton (8) found
033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054	15/09/99	Selliah Arumugam Jeyaraman Chandrakumar Antonyo Christia Florence Ariyanaygam Gajanthini Pathmarasa Jenitta Thanadas Jenodi Arumugam Jeyaraaman Jeyam Jeysankar Alam Rose Konstoses Gnanasegaram Letchumipillai Antonio Melrose Packiyanathan Reetama Savariyon Thevanayagam Sebastianpillai Anthonypillai Sebamalaimuthu Sangarapillai Sellamanikam Thambiah Subramaniam Sinnathamby Thambu Anthony Thavarasa Thersammah Sinniah Ugapaalasingam Rasanayagam Uthayaruban Kanapathipillai Yogarasaa		59 20 54 12 15 25 50 33 20 43 29 56 50 52 45 70 55 50 35 18 36	Puthukkudiyiruppu	Mullaithivu	Sri Lankan Air Force Kfir Jets bombed crowded market area at about 10.00am. 22 civilians massacred. Local NGO sources said human flesh was strewn over the entire market area. Houses and buildings were destroyed. Sixteen of those who were massacred were from Puthukkudiyiruppu itself. ICRC issued a Amnesty International issued a
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
055	16/09/99	Three civilians			Chemmani	Jaffna	Three (9,10,11) skeletons found near Kottukkinattady Pillaiyar Temple, location identified by Jakatilaka, former Sri Lanka army soldier convicted in Krishanty Kumaraswamy case. He states that 50 civilians were buried in this particular place.
056	17/09/99	Civilian			Chemmani	Jaffna	Skeleton (12) found, place located by ex-corporal Rajapakse. The hands were tied. The forehead was crushed on left side.
057	18/09/99	Villagers			Borapola, Bedi Rekka and	Ampara and Batticaloa Sinnawatta	Unidentified gunmen killed villagers in remote area. Some houses set on fire.
058	19/09/99	Youth	M		Siththandy	Batticaloa	Shot dead by Sri Lankan army
059	26/09/99	Civilian			Passara	Badulla	Killed in explosion
060 061	28/09/99	A.Yogeswary V.Nageswary	F F	34 14	Kaluwankerni	Batticaloa	Mother and daughter killed by fire from Sri Lanka army and Razeek group, paramilitary organisation working with the Si Lanka armed forces.
062	28/09/99	Thevan	M		Kaluwankerni	Batticaloa	Shot dead by Sri Lankan army
063 064	01/10/99	S.Suthagar S.Gopikumarahaath	M M	22 34	Katkadanthakulam	Vavuniya	Two skeletons found by villagers in forest area, thought to be of these two persons who had gone hunting in February and were then reported missing.
065	01/10/99	Youth			Batticaloa	Batticaloa	??????????? Killed in grenade explosion
066	06/10/99	Civilian			Suruvil	Jaffna	Skeleton found by family who returned to their home, after being displaced in 1995.
067	08/10/99	Lakshman	M		Aluthgama	Colombo	Tamil schoolboy abducted on 8^th October, found dead in latrine. He had been killed by strangling.
068	12/10/99	Three civilians			Mandaithivu	Jaffna	Decomposed bodies of three men washed ashore on Mandaithivu island.
069	13/10/99	Sinnathamby Raveendran	M	25	Pallivaasalpiddy Coast	Mannar	Displaced young man shot dead by unidentified gunmen.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
070	13/10/99	Three civilians			Kayts	Jaffna	Three dead bodies washed onto the shore. Taken to Jaffna Hospital on orders of Kayts magistrate.
071	15/10/99	Seven civilians	M F		Thenmaradchi	Jaffna	Shot dead by Sri Lankan Army gunfire, as they made their way to shore of Jaffna Lagoon to cross it. Six men and one woman.
072	16/10/99	Kanapathipillai Pathmanathan	M	27	Pt.Pedro	Jaffna	His body was found in a well at Puttralai Sithivinayagar temple. The young man had been beaten, with injuries on his head, his hands and legs were tied up. He had last been seen at the temple on 15^th October.
073	16/10/99	civilian	M		Kayts	Jaffna	Dead body washed ashore. Taken to Jaffna hospital.
074	18/10/99	Kathirkamathamby Kamalanathan	M	30	Kalkudah	Batticaloa	Shot dead by Sri Lanka Army in public cemetery at Kalkudah, at 11pm. He had been arrested at about 7pm at Kannakipuram.
075	19/10/99	Three civilians			Kerathivu	Jaffna	Fishermen found three bodies washed ashore, one of whom had the head chopped off. This was found further down the shore. The bodies had many gunshot wounds.
076	31/10/99	S. Vinayakam	M	58	Kaddumurivu	Batticaloa	Sri Lankan army from Kathiraveli SLA army camp, fired several shells hitting small farming village. His house was hit by a shell, killing him instantly.
077	31/10/99	Subramaniam Thiagarajah	M	55	Karuvelankandel	Mullaitivu (Oddusuddan)	Father of four children killed instantly when Sri Lanka army shelled his home. Several villages in the area shelled by SLA from Ampagamam.
078	01/11/99	Three civilians	M		Muttur	Trincomalee	Sri Lankan police handed three bodies with gunshot wounds to the Muttur hospital. Believed to be fishermen shot dead by the Sri Lankan Navy.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
079	01/11/99	Tamil youth	M		Eravur	Batticaloa	Shot dead by Sri Lankan Police.
080	02/11/99	Atputharajah Nadarajah	M	38	Colombo	Colombo	Editor of Tamil weekly newspaper, also an MP, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen whilst in his car, in Wellawatte.
081	03/11/99	Seven civilians			Paliyady	Mullaitivu	Village bombed by Sri Lanka Air Force jets. Six civilians killed instantly, a seventh died after several hours of surgery, reports MSF.
082 083	09/11/99	Kasupathy Raventiran Sathasivam Mathan	M M	20 18	Valaichenai	Batticaloa	Both shot dead by the Sri Lanka Army. Bodies taken to Valaichenai hospital mortuary.
084	10/11/99	Manikkam Perinpamoorthy	M	21	Kaluwankerni	Batticaloa	Shot dead after had left his home to pick coconuts, by Razeek group, an armed group operating with the SLA . He is the fourth in his family to be killed by the Razeek. District Medical Officer stated that he had nine gunshot injuries.
085	12/11/99	Young person	M		Jaffna	Jaffna	Police took the body to Jaffna hospital, reporting that the youth was shot by the Sri Lanka Army.
086	13/11/99	civilian	M		Eeachanthivu	Batticaloa	Fisherman on his way to lagoon, killed by rocket propelled grenades fired by Sri Lanka Army from Batticaloa airport base. Unable to reach hospital due to travel restrictions.
087 088 089	18/11/99	Vijayaranee Gajenthini Hemalatha	F F F	30 01	Thonikkal	Vavuniya	Mother and infant daughter and another civilian killed in a Sri Lankan army shell attack.
090 091 092	19/11/99	Kanthasamy Vasantha Kanthasamy Perananthaselvi Vasantharasa	F F M	20 22	Kovilpuliyan- kulam	Vavuniya	Killed in a shell attack fired by the Sri Lankan Army. First two names are of sisters.
093	20/11/99	Thirty-seven civilians			Madhu Church	Madhu	Killed by Sri Lanka Army shells fired at Madhu church. Thirteen children were among the dead.
094	23/11/99	youth			Puththur junction	Jaffna	Body of dead youth, aged about 20-25, found.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
095	23/11/99	Ramachandran Suman	M	17	Puththur junction	Jaffna	Shot dead by Sri Lankan Army
096	24/11/99	Two civilians			Kopay Christian College	Jaffna	Two human skulls were discovered as the owner of some land near the College was digging a pit to transplant young coconut plants. The Sri Lankan army has a camp in this location.
097 098	27/11/99	S. Mahalingam N. Narayananasamy	M M	49 55	Karukkaikulam	Mannar	Killed by Sri Lankan Army shell attack, fired from Thallady Sri Lanka army base.
099	29/11/99	Logeswary Velmuruku	F	30	Parapukkadanthan	Mannar	Killed by Sri Lanka army shell attack on village, fired from Thallady Sri Lanka army camp.
100	02/12/99	Albert Alwin Nesam Santhan Francis	M M	52 23	Vavuniya	Vavuniya	Two bodies found. Both were shot in the head. Local people believe they were killed by Sri Lankan Army. These two displaced men had returned to visit their homes and gather items needed by their displaced families. They had never come back and were reported missing.
101	02/12/99	Sinnathamby Puniyamoorthy	M	43	Meeravodai	Batticaloa	Mentally ill man shot dead by Sri Lankan Army from Meeravodai SLA camp, on his way to the “Murugan” Temple. He was known in the area as a patient, and was known to the army as well.
102	08/12/99	Christy Jesuthasan	M	25	Pallimunai	Mannar	Body found washed ashore. He had been arrested by the CSU (Counter Subversive Unit) on October 14^th and subsequently released. Relatives say Christy went fishing on 5^th December and never returned. The youth’s body had severe injuries to the head.
103	15/12/99	Three civilians	M		Pallimunai	Mannar	Three bodies of men, estimated to be between the ages of 18 and 32, with head injuries, found washed ashore near the cemetery.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
104	20/12/99	One civilian			Chilaw	Puttalam	Shot dead in pre-election violence.
105 106	23/12/99	Asia Umma Benazir	F F	45 14	Mallikaikadu	Ampara	Shot dead while they were asleep by unidentified gunmen who came to their residence looking for Asia Umma’s younger brother, Abdul Majeed, party campaigner for the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress. The village was under curfew.
107	28/12/99	Semmapodi Nanthakumar	M	26	Saththurukkondan	Batticaloa	Shot dead by members of the Razeek group, a paramilitary organisation operating with the Sri Lanka Army.
108	28/01/00	Sarathambal Saravanbavananthakurukal	F	29	Pungudutivu	Jaffna	Young Brahmin mother forcibly dragged from her home; gang-raped and murdered by Sri Lankan Army soldiers.
109	02/01/00	Rasalingam Sooriyaprabakaran	M	18	Iruthayapuram	Batticaloa	Car mechanic shot by Sri Lanka Army and Police.
110	05/01/00	Kumar G.G. Ponnambalam	M	62	Wellawatte	Colombo	Prominent lawyer and General Secretary of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress shot dead in his car, in Ramakrishna Rd. by pro-government gunmen. Post mortum revealed five revolver shots behind right eye.
111	05/01/00	Eight persons			Colombo	Colombo	Killed in explosion.
112	06/01/00	Alaguraja	M	17	Periyakulam	Trincomalee	Shot dead by Sri Lankan Navy.
113	06/01/00	Jesudasan	M		Kalutara, South of Colombo	Colombo	Tamil political detainee killed by Sinhala prison guards. Tamil detainees on hunger-strike protesting that they had been detained without charge, were attacked by Sinhala prisoners and Prison guards.
114	07/01/00	Srikumar	M		Kalutara, South of Colombo	Colombo	Tamil political detainee killed by Sinhala prison guards, died of injuries inflicted on 6^th January.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
115	08/01/00	Tamil civilian	M		Kalutara, South of Colombo	Colombo	Third Tamil political detainee killed in Kalutara jail. Died of injuries inflicted on 6^th January.
116	12/01/00	Two civilians			Kuppilan	Jaffna	Two human skeletons found by students in the grounds of Vigneswara Vidyalayam School.
117	13/01/00	Paramanantham Thivarakan	M	13	Batticaloa	Batticaloa	Shot dead by the Sri Lankan Police.
118	14/01/00	Vadivelu Vijeyaratnam	M	47	Point Pedro	Jaffna	The Chairman of the Urban Council was shot dead by unidentified gunmen. He had seven gun shot injuries.
119	14/01/00	Mudali Pakeerathan	M	25	Point Pedro	Batticaloa	Employee of the Urban Council shot dead
120	18/01/99	Civilian woman			Miyankalkulam	Batticaloa	Shot by unidentified gunman
121	23/01/00	Sinnathamby Vijeyan Sellathamby Pushpalatha	M F	14 10	Morakodanchenai	Batticaloa	Shot by Sri Lankan Army. The young boy died on the spot, the little girl died from her injuries in Batticaloa hospital in the evening.
122	23/01/00	Five civilians	M		Kunjukulam Vayal	Mannar	Five farmers shot dead by the Sri Lankan Army as they were working in their fields.
***	15/10/98 (left out by an oversight in previous report)	Sathasivam Sanjeevan	M	19	Kalmunai Police detention	Batticaloa	Arrested by Sri Lankan Police on 13/10/98. Tortured and shot dead by Sri Lankan Police, whilst held in detention. The police handed the body to his parents, ordering immediate burial. The JMO’s report revealed that he had been tortured and shot dead.

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Documented cases of Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances - July 99 to January 2000 (actual disappearances higher than documented)

No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District
001 002 003 004	01/08/99	Arumugam Paramasivam Rasathurai Rajanikanth Nagenthiran Thileepan Sathasivam Sivanandarajan	M M M M	18 21 14 19.	Jaffna	Jaffna	Reported missing during the month of July, by the HRC. The persons originate from Madduvil, Kodikamam, Nunavil and Varani respectively.
005	05/08/99	S.M.Mohammed			Andiyapuliankulam	Vavuniya	Muslim shopkeeper abducted about midnight by gunmen local people say belong to Sri Lankan army.
006	06/08/99	N.Zuhair			Andiyapuliankulam	Vavuniya	Muslim farmer reported missing after he went to his field and never returned. Villagers claim Sri Lanka army equipment found where he went missing
007	11/08/99	Selvachandren Satheeskumar	M		Pandaarikulam	Vavuniya	Displaced youth from Kilinochchi who had come to Pandaarikulam seeking refuge reported missing. He had been on his way to visit his mother in hospital.
008 009	12/08/99	Thadchanamoorthy Surenthini Kumaralingam Mathana	F F	34 21	Jaffna	Jaffna	Reported missing
010 011	20/08/99	Nadarasa Pathmakanthan Sivaguru Sooriyakanthan	M M	25 24	Iruthayapuram Junction	Batticaloa	Abducted by unidentified gunmen, in white unmarked van, witnesses believe the gunmen were Sri Lankan army.
012	21/08/99	Selvarajah Thushanhini	F	14	Gurunagar	Jaffna	Reported missing
013 014 015	08/10/99	Seenithamby Sathasivam Somanathan Panchchadcharam S. Velautham	M M M	42 51 56	Sinnawathai	Batticaloa	Displaced persons arrested by Sinhala homeguards as they went to collect milk and not seen since. Reported missing. Police have not taken any action against the homeguards.
016	09/10/99	Two Tamil women			Thellippalai	Jaffna	Mother and daughter reported missing after Sri Lankan army shoot out and cordon and search operation.
017	13/11/99	Ganeshan Gamini	F	10	Ariyalai	Jaffna	Reported missing.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
018	24/11/99	Ratnasingham Sreetharan	M	14	Kachchai Road	Jaffna	Reported missing.
019 020 021 022	08/12/99	Thangamailan Mayooran Velnayagam Maran Sinnathamby Mathiyalakan Thambirasa Latheeswaran	M M M M	17	Thenmaradchi	Jaffna	Schoolboy students from Kodikamam reported missing. The first named boy is an A Level student from Chavakachcheri Hindu College. The other three study at Thirunavukkarasu Maha Vidyalayam.
023	03/01/00	Vinayakamoorthy Vijayarajah	M	22	Valaichenai	Batticaloa	Reported missing after arrested by the Sri Lankan Army, near the Hindu Temple, as he was cycling home, having accompanied a relative to the Valaichenai Hindu College. Witnesses saw him taken to army camp but SLA at the camp denied arrest. Parents have informed MP and ICRC. Still missing, February 6th.
***	04/06/99 (left out by an oversight in previous report)	Subramanium Ponrasa	M	50	Katkovalam,Point Pedro	Jaffna	Reported missing. Since then his relatives have been unable to locate his whereabouts despite many efforts.