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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