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Documented cases of ARBITRARY ARRESTS/DETENTION July 2000 to Jan 2001

(actual arrests higher than documented by TCHR)

No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
001 002 003 004 005 006	07/07/00	S. Paramalingam M.Ambalavanar S.Thevarasa P.Kandeepan P.Jeyachandran Civilian	MM M M M M	34 45 22 20 19	Sinnavathai	Batticaloa	Six farmers arrested by Sri Lankan army as they were working in their paddy fields. Interrogated by Counter Subversive Unit (CSU).
007	18/07/00	S. Thiyakarasa	M		Batticaloa Technical College	Batticaloa	College lecturer arrested in the college by Sri Lankan Police from Kandy. The police entered the premises without seeking permission from the Principal.
008	18/07/00	Sivagnanam Ahileswaran	M		Batticaloa technical College	Batticaloa	Director of the Education Dept. for the Paddiruppu area arrested in the college by Police from Kandy.
009	19/07/00	Shanmukam Krishnamoorthy	M	21	Vairavapuliyan- kulam	Vavuniya	Employee of Vavuniya Town Council detained and interrogated by Counter Subversive Unit.
010 011 012 013 014	04/08/00	Thavarasa Sathasivam Suntharalinkam Kanakarasa Thamotharampillai Mathivarnan Periyasamy Santhirathas Kandaiah Kesavan	M M M M M	26 18 33 36 39	Sasthirikoolan-kulam	Vavuniya	Arrested by Sri Lankan army during search operation. Complaints made to HRC.
015	09/08/00	Thanabalasigham Sasitharan	M	27	Brown police station	Vavuniya	Arrested in the police station when he went there to renew his police permission. Detained by CSU.
016 017 018 019	10/08/00	Velu Sivakumar Velupillai Akileswaran Sivaperumal Thevarasa Shanmukanathan Gnanasekaran	M M M M	26 21 22 36	Sasthirikoolan-kulam	Vavuniya	Arrested by Sri Lankan army during search operation. Complaints made to HRC.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
020	11/08/00	Ganesan Nakuleswaran	M	22	Goodshed transit camp	Vavuniya	Arrested by Sri Lankan army. Interrogated. Later released.
021 022	14/08/00	Kathiresu Jegatheeswaran Mylvaganam Vijeyakumar	M M	20 21	Sunthirapuram	Vavuniya	Arrested by Sri Lankan army. Detained at 21-1 Brigade Headquarters.
023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030	15/08/00	Arumukam Krishnapillai Ariyaratnam Chantirasekaram Poolapillai Nesan Nalarasa Thavarasa Velayutham Mohan Thurairasa Nirmukarasa Uokarasa Sasikumar Nakarasan Puvanenthiran	M M M M M M M M	55 22 25 22 21 20 12 33	Kaduruvelle bus station	Polonnaruwa	Eight farmers from Thumbankerny in Southeast Ampara district, arrested by Sri Lankan police while on their way to work in their paddy fields. They were taken into custody according to the government-funded HRC at Kalmunai. Senior Police officer denied their arrests had taken place.
031 032	24/08/00	Kanagaretnam Sri Kantha Somasuntharam Mamangeswaran	M M	25 26	Maruthamunai	Amparai	Arrested by Special Task Force. Detained and interrogated at Anti-Subversive Unit, Ampara.
033	09/09/00	Tamil Temple priest	M		Nelliyadi	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lankan army on Jaffna-Point Pedro Road, on his way to Selvachannithi temple.
034	14/09/00	Fifteen civilians			Naasivanthivu	Batticaloa	Arrested and detained by Sri Lankan army soldiers during a search operation, conducted as they were preparing an “Amman” temple for a religious festival. The army denied having arrested them.
035	15/09/00	S. Ramdas	M		Colombo	Colombo	Tamil photographer arrested by Sri Lankan police.
036	10/10/00	Nineteen civilians			Kayts	Jaffna	Polling agents abducted, detained, and assaulted by armed men of EPDP, pro-government Tamil group.
037	13/10/00	Four civilians			Vadamaradchi	Jaffna	Four temple devotees arrested by Sri Lankan army, during religious annual festival. Detained and severely assaulted in army camp at Vallipuram.
038	16/10/00	Twenty eight civilians			Akkaraipattu	Batticaloa	Arrested by sri Lankan police in a mosque where they were gathered to protest the police’s random shooting and wounding five persons in the mosque on 14^th Oct. The arrested included a newspaper editor.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
039	30/10/00	Five youths			Kiliveddi	Batticaloa	Arrested by Sri Lankan army during search operation and taken to 58^th mile post army camp.
040	30/10/00	Periyasamy Chandrasekaran	M		Talawakele	Nuwara Eliya	Member of Parliament arrested for demonstrating against Bindunuwewa massacre. Taken by CID to Colombo for interrogation.
041	30/10/00	Eighteen civilians			Borolanda	Nuwara Eliya	Arrested by Sri Lankan police.
042	12/11/00	Fifty civilians			Eravur	Batticaloa	Arrested and interrogated by Sri Lanka army and police during search operation.
043 044 045	12/11/00	Kanthasamy Mohan Sivagnanam Anandarajah Sittampalam Kiruparajah	M M M	24 22 22	Welikanda	Polonnaruwa	Young Tamils living in refugee welfare centre arrested by Police, at checkpoint. They were on their way to work in paddy fields.
046	15/11/00	Twenty civilians			Badulla	Colombo	Fifteen men and five women arrested on suspicion, in search operation, for not having their identity cards.
047	17/11/00	Four Tamil youth	M		Addalaichenai	Ampara	Arrested by Sri Lankan police.
048	20/11/00	E. Sri Ranganthan	M		Jaffna	Jaffna	College student arrested by Sri Lankan army.
049	21/11/00	Four civilians	M		Muthliyakulam	Vavuniya	Arrested by Sri Lankan army.
050	23/11/00	Seven civilians arrested	M		Sasthrikulankulam	Vavuniya	Arrested by Sri lankan army in search operation.
051	23/11/00	Sivalogarajah Alestina	F		Sasthrikulankulam	Vavuniya	Arrested by Sri Lankan army, detained, interrogated.
052 053 054 055	10/12/00	S. Hemanathan Sureshkumar Mathavarajah Nathan	M M M M	16	Karuvakerni	Batticaloa	Arrested in their own homes by Sri Lankan army, who had arrived in armoured vehicles. The youth were assaulted by the soldiers, and two were hospitalised. The first two youth are school pupils.
056	19/12/00	Maheswaran Ponnuthurai	M		Mirusuvil	Jaffna	Arbitrarily arrested by Sri Lankan army, while returning to his home. Eight other Tamils also arrested were killed by Sri Lanka army on the same day.
057	02/01/01	Nadarajah Thiruchelvam	M		Wellawatte	Colombo	Journalist of Jaffna newspaper, "Valampuri", arrested. He had been attending a family wedding in Colombo where he had registered himself with the police as required. He was detained with no charges, interrogated and tortured by Sri Lankan police.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
058	09/01/01	Somasundaram Mukunthan	M	19	Pandaariakulam	Vavuniya	Student abducted from his home by militia working with the Sri Lankan army. Others in the home protested and the abductors threatened to shoot them.
059	12/01/01	Hindu priest Priest’s wife	M F		Talaimannar	Mannar	Arrested and detained by Sri Lankan Navy.
060	13/01/01	Nine students			Jaffna	Jaffna	Arrested by Sri Lanka army in connection with organising a peace demonstration. The security forces had refused to allow peace demonstration.
061	15/01/10	Fourteen Tamil young people	M F		Bandarawela	Bandarawela	Nine young men and five young women arrested by Sri Lanka police.
062	30/01/01	Eight civilians			Mannar	Mannar	Eight fishermen arrested by Sri Lanka Navy. Their heads were shaved to humiliate them publicly.
***	08/03/99 (left out by an oversight in previous report)	Balasingham Sasikumar	M	24	Navatkudah	Batticaloa	Married father of one arrested at his home by Sri Lankan army. Detained in Counter Subversive Unit where a “confession” was recorded in Sinhalese which he does not speak. He was then sent to Kalutara prison.
***	25/02/00 (ditto)	Navaratnam Mohanraj Thiyagarajah Pathmaseelan	M M	19 18	Salli, Sampaltivu	Trincomalee	Young fishermen arrested, assaulted and tortured by Sri Lankan Navy, the second detained in Boosa Camp. A third man, a colleague, was also arrested and since “disappeared”. All three had registered at the Navy checkpoint, as required by the security authorities.
***	11/06/00 (ditto)	Nagarajah Vameswaran	M		Muttur	Trincomalee	A-Level student arrested as he went shopping with sister. Treated at two base hospitals for injuries sustained during interrogation in Police detention.
***	28/06/00 (ditto)	Eight Tamil youth	M		Potkerni	Trincomalee	Arrested by Sri Lankan army at in search operation.
***	29/06/00 (ditto)	Gnanasekaram Amalathas	M	19	Murugan Hospital	Mannar	Arrested by Sri Lankan police, in the grounds of the hospital, where he had gone to help a neighbour who was a patient. Held in Counter Subversive Unit.

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Documented cases of E.J. KILLINGS / SUMMARY EXECUTIONS July 2000 to January 2001

(actual killings higher than documented by TCHR)

No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Incident	District	Incident
001	01/07/00	Asha	M	47	Poonthoddam	Vavuniya	Internally displaced father of five killed instantly by Sri Lanka air force bombing.
002	05/07/00	Veerakathy Sellathurai	M	55	Kilinochchi	Vanni	Killed by effects of the embargo lack of medicines. died in ambulance on way to Vavuniya hospital
003	07/07/00	Manchutharasan Arunachalam	M	18	Mannar	Mannar	Shot dead by Special Task force branch of Sri Lanka police.
004 005	09/07/00	Jesuthas Tamil Youth	M M		Batticaloa	Batticaloa	Both youths shot dead by Sri Lanka army at check point in the town.
006 007	10/07/00	Velmurugu Charles Satkunam Ilyathamby Arumugam	M M		Vaalakkaalai	Batticaloa	Worshippers shot dead by Sri Lankan army as they returned home from annual religious festival at Thaanthamalai Murugan Temple.
008	12/07/00	Somasundaram Sanjeevan	M		Jaffna	Jaffna	A-Level student shot dead by Sri Lankan army as he returned home, after playing football on school premises.
009 010	13/07/00	Palanithamby Sambasivam Thevaraj Gnanaesh	M M	16 16	Kaddumurivu	Batticaloa	Shot dead by Sri Lankan army as they returned home to Naasevanthivu from annual religious festival at Maylankarachchai Mariamman Temple.
011	28/07/00	Three civilians			Thonikkal	Vavuniya	Two children and an adult killed instantly in bomb explosion in cinema, in suburb of Vavuniya town.
012	09/08/00	Arunasalam Santhiramohan	M	20	Malanpiddy	Batticaloa	Recently married, he was killed, then decapitated, as he was working in his paddy field, by Sri Lankan soldiers from Morokkoddanchenai army camp. His body had gunshot wounds in right thigh and armpit, and knife wound on left forehead.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Incident	District	Incident
013	09/08/00	Thiyagarajah Gnanarajah	M	29	Sithaandy	Batticaloa	Father of four shot dead by Sri Lankan army.
014	10/08/00	Thiyagarajah Sinnaraja	M	17	Maanikkam Vayal Kandam	Polonnaruwa	Shot dead by Sri Lankan army, while at work in rice fields.
015 016	15/08/00	Civilian Sabasivam Vijeyasuntharam	M M	45	Vaalakkalai	Batticaloa	Two farmers shot by Special Task Force. First killed on the spot, the second, died next day in hospital.
017	16/08/00	Thiruvaathirai Pushpalatha	F	12	Vavuniya	Vavuniya	Killed in bomb explosion.
018	17/08/00	Two civilians			Kilinochchi	Vanni	Two skeletons found, thought to be of people who had returned to Kilinochchi while under control of the Sri Lankan army, to visit relatives. 54 such skeletons already found recently in this area.
019	18/08/00	M. Vijayatharsan	M	20	Kaluwankerny	Batticaloa	A Level student, son of school principal, shot dead by Sri Lankan army.
020	20/08/00	Kandasamy Thavarajah	M	45	Vanthaarumoolai	Batticaloa	Farmer shot dead by Sri Lankan army soldiers.
021 022	25/08/00	Mohammed Ishhan Amina Umma	M	8 60	Kangeyan Oodai	Batticaloa	Civilians killed when grenade, carried by Sri Lankan army soldier exploded.
023 024	28/08/00	Mylvakanam Subramanium Murukupillai Thurairasasingham	M M	36 44	Maya Oya forests	Batticaloa	These men had been reported missing to HRC, August 24 when they never returned after collecting firewood. Their decomposed bodies were found six days later.
025	04/09/00	Two civilians			Akkaraipattu	Ampara	Two civilians killed by unidentified gunmen during preparation for elections.
026 027	10/09/00	Cheliyan Perinpanayagam Civilian	M M		Paandiruppu	Batticaloa	Parliamentary candidate and local organiser shot dead by unidentified gunmen.
028 029	11/09/00	Velaapodi Kirupa Two civilians	F M		Vavunathivu	Batticaloa	Three civilians killed by Sri Lanka army. The pregnant lady, from Kurinchaamunai village had been on her way to Batticaloa hospital.
030 031	12/09/00	Poopalapillai Sreekanth Kanakasabai Karunakaran	M M	23	Aariyampathi	Batticaloa	Two young Tamil men shot dead by the Special Task Force as they returned home after attending a funeral. The first was a married man, the second was about to leave to go abroad.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Incident	District	Incident
032 033 034 035 036 037	22/09/00	Giri Rajendran Anthony Fernando Lakshan Priyantha Perera Samson	M M M M M M		Bay of Trincomalee	Trincomalee	Some fifty fishermen had been fishing. There were no Sri Lanka army restrictions in that part of the bay. The Sri Lankan Navy started firing indiscriminately, despite the screams and pleas of the fishermen. At least six fishermen were killed. The bodies of two Tamil fishermen (the first two names listed) and four Sinhalese fishermen were recovered.
038 039	22/09/00	Thangaraja N. Satheesh	M M	47 21	Periyakadai beach	Mannar	These two fishermen were shot dead by Sri Lankan army as they walked towards their boats on the beach.
040	26/09/00	Two civilians			Kodikamam	Jaffna	Killed in a shell attack fired by the Sri Lankan army.
041	26/09/00	One civilian			Iyattaalai, Varani	Jaffna	Killed in a shell attack fired by the Sri Lankan army.
042	30/09/00	Kunalingam Kugadasan	M	14	Navalady	Batticaloa	Shot dead by Sri Lankan army while he was swimming in lagoon with his friends.
043	02/10/00	Twenty civilians			Mutur	Trincomalee	Killed in bomb explosion at election meeting.
044	02/10/00	Young Tamil youth	M	14	Kaluthaavalai	Batticaloa	Killed by indiscriminate gunfire of Sri Lankan Police.
045 046	02/10/00	Nimal Jayaweera Piyantha Jayaweera	M M	26 21	Kalmadu in Valaichenai	Batticaloa	Two brothers killed by Sri lankan army gunfire, while returning from their cousin’s birthday party.
047 048 049 050 051 052 053	02/10/00	N. Arulanantharasa C. Nallathamby T. Kalirasa V. Somasunderam T. Kanagaretnam Atputharajah Krishnapillai Thayawathie	M M M M M M F	17 57 35 56 57 37 32	Poonagar, Ichchilampathai, In Mutur	Trincomalee	Farmers abducted from their work in paddy fields by Home guards. They were shot and hacked to death by this militia group, which operates with the Sri Lankan security forces. The body of the woman was mutilated. Justice of the Peace and social worker S. Gunanayagam appealed to provincial Governor (an army Major General) for help for the destitute surviving family members.
054	04/10/00	Nallretnam Nallarasa	M		Sithandymadu Aaru	Batticaloa	Youth shot dead by Sri Lankan army soldiers as he worked in paddy field.
055	05/10/00	Eleven civilians			Medawachiya	Anuradapura	Killed in bomb explosion at election meeting.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Incident	District	Incident
056	19/10/00	Mylvaganam Nirmalrajan	M		Jaffna	Jaffna	Senior journalist, married, and father of three, shot dead in his own home, in high security area of Jaffna town by suspected pro-government group, EPDP. He had reported on their intimidation, thuggery and election malpractices. His reporting was local, island-wide and international, through the BBC. He was secretary of the Northern Journalists Association.
057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075	25/10/00	Gunapalan Jeyavarthanam Anthony John Karunakaran Ramasamy Rubeshkumar Visvaparan Senthuran Vinayakmoorthy Mohan Sinnathurai Ravitharan Kanapathipillai Vijeyenthiran Visvalingam Balakumar Marimuththu Mathiyalakan Punamoorthy Selvarajah Thurairajah Mukunthan Sivayokarajan Vipulanantharajah Sivayokarajan Kokulamani Sajeewan Perinpanayagam Nimlaraj Somasuntharan Sellarasa Sivan Kubendran Pushparaja Kandeepan Punniyamoorthy Mathialagan	M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M	17	Bindunuwewa	Bandarawela	Thirty one Tamil detainees were killed, hacked to death, by Sinhala gangs numbering several thousand persons. This was carried out with the complicity of Sri Lankan police and army. The first thirteen named were killed instantly. The highly decomposed bodies of the following four were identified five days later. The last two named succumbed to their injuries several days later. The remaining twelve bodies, were mutilated or charred beyond recognition. The mobs had set the rehabilitation centre on fire after the massacre. Relatives of Anthony John said one of his eyeballs had been removed, both his arms had been hacked off, and his body was severely cut. 17 year old Pushparaja Kandeepan had been arrested when he was staying at his parents home, Veeranagar, Trincomalee. One of those killed was a 12 year old boy whose crime was reportedly begging in Ampara. The third and forth named, were former members of PLOTE, paramilitaries operating with the Sri Lankan army. They had deserted, then were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy, handed over to Vavuniya police, and taken to Bindunuwewa centre, after pleading not to have to go back to their villages where they feared they would be killed by PLOTE.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Incident	District	Incident
076	27/10/00	Vasanthathevi	F	29	Kaluwanchikudi	Batticaloa	Killed while breast feeding her baby, by shell fired at her home by Sri Lankan police.
077	29/10/00	Two civilians	M		Talawakele	Nuwara Eliya	Shot dead by indiscriminate firing by Sri Lankan police, as they participated in protest rally against the massacre of detainees at Bindunuwewa detention centre. Fifteen Tamil shops burnt down, by Sinhala thugs, Police took no action.
078	29/10/00	Civilian	M		Karuwankerny	Batticaloa	Killed by Sri Lankan Police gunfire.
079	30/10/00	Four Tamil youth	M		Talawakele	Nuwara Eliya	Killed when Sri Lankan police fired indiscriminately at rally organised to mourn victims of the Bindunuwewa massacre,
080	30/10/00	One civilian			Haputale	Nuwara Eliya	Killed by Sri Lankan Police when they opened fire on a group of Tamils.
081	05/11/00	K. Sathees	M	02	Ramespuram	Batticaloa	Infant killed in a shell attack fired by Sri Lankan army.
082	07/11/00	Aslie Nimalan Soundaranayagam	M	50	Kiran	Batticaloa	Member of Parliament, and retired school principal, shot dead by unidentified gunmen as he travelled home on motor cycle.
083	07/11/00	Namasivayam Sivanandan	M	29	Thiruperunthurai	Batticaloa	Shot dead at home, by unidentified gunmen.
084	13/11/00	Balasingham Kugarajah	M	25	Soodaikudah, Mutur.	Trincomalee	Farmer and father of one child, killed instantly by shell fired by Sri Lankan army. The army refused ICRC access to village.
085	17/11/00	Tamil youth	M		Addalaichenai	Ampara	Shot dead by Sri Lankan police as he rode motor bike.
086	17/11/00	Nadarasa Senthuran	M	17	Santhiveli	Batticaloa	School student shot dead by Sri Lankan army soldiers, while on his way to meet relatives.
087 088 089 090	22/11/00	Vijeyarajah Jeyakanthan Jeevananthan Prashanthan Sinnathamby Wijekumar James Jeyaprathap	M M M M	15	Gopalapuram	Trincomalee	Shot dead by Sri Lankan Navy, deliberately, as they went to place fishing nets out in the evening for gathering in the next day, as is the custom. MP complained to ministry of Defence requesting an impartial inquiry. Last named, a school student. The last named was a school boy.
091	23/11/00	Two Tamil muslims	M		Mutur Jetty	Trincomalee	Two school students killed by shells fired by Sri Lankan army.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Incident	District	Incident
092	28/11/00	Seven civilians			Nr Anuradapura	Anuradapura	Killed while travelling in bus hit by land mine explosion.
093 094	06/12/00	Three civilians. Dr. Periyathamby Duke Arulpragasam	M		Sathurokondan	Batticaloa	Three people killed in bus hit by land mine explosion. Dr Arulpragasam, the district Medical officer for Kallaru, died later due to the injuries he sustained.
095	10/12/00	Sivanayagam Ilango	M	29	Thiruperunthurai	Batticaloa	Shot dead by Sri Lankan Air Force personnel as he returned home after making complaint at Airforce checkpoint about a robbery. Two men with him injured by air Force gunfire.
096 097	11/12/00	Arulanantham Kamalananthan Sinnathamby Sivakumar	M M		Poovarasankulam	Vavuniya	Shot dead by Sri Lankan army. Post-mortem by District Medical officer revealed that one had gunshot wounds on chest, the other in his head.
098 099	13/12/00	Shanmugaraja Swarnahasan Mahalingam Thamiran	M M		Iqbal Nagar	Trincomalee	Shot dead by Sri Lankan Navy after being tortured in abandoned mill. ICRC immediately came to the scene. AI issued a statement. Thamiran had been active in organising a protest against killings of 4 fishermen from his village, Gopalapuram, shot dead on 22/11/00 by Sri Lankan Navy.
100	14/12/00	Two civilians			Aarumukathan Kudiyiruppu Vidyalayam	Batticaloa	Killed in bomb explosion.
101	16/12/00	Vasanthi Ganeshamoorthy	F	16	Eravur	Batticaloa	Killed in shell attack fired by Sri Lankan Police.
102	16/12/00	Kanapathipillai Selvakumar	M	42	Maniarkulam	Vavuniya	Abducted from his home and killed by members of a paramilitary group working with the Sri Lankan army.
103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110	19/12/00	Vilvaraj (father) Prasath (son) Pratheepan (son) Thevakulasingham Baskar Gnanabasakaran Jeyachandran Nadesu Gnanachandran Kathiran (father) Shanthan (son)	M M M M M M M M	41 05 15 31 19 21 35	Mirusuvil	Jaffna	Eight Tamil civilians living in Point Pedro, displaced from their homes in Mirusuvil, went back there to collect personal belongings. They were arbitrarily arrested, by the Sri Lankan army, blind-folded and severely assaulted. They were then hacked to death by the soldiers and buried. One other man (see arbitrary arrests section, case no. 055 ) who was with them, managed to flee and inform the local authorites, who then insisted the army identify where the mass grave was. The grave was uncovered on 25/12/00.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Incident	District	Incident
111	31/12/01	Four civilians			Kilinochchi	Vavuniya	Died in Kilinochchi hospital during month of December due to severe malnutrition.
112	04/01/01	S.Nithiyathas	M	30	Kalutara	Kalutara	Tamil detainee killed in Kalutara prison. He had been stabbed to death.
113	26/01/01	Velayutham Vasanthakumar	M	29	Kirimichchai- kulam	Batticaloa	Shot dead by the Sri Lanka army.
***	08/07/96 (left out by an oversight in previous report)	Mrs Ockers Mr Ockers	F M		Iruthayapuram	Batticaloa	Shot dead by unidentified gunmen in their home. Earlier that day they had lodged a complaint with the police about the abduction of their son, Jude, by the police on July 7 1996. The police had abducted him to force marry him to a young woman who had been made pregnant as a consequence of her liaison with a police officer.
***	09/03/00 (left out by an oversight in previous report)	Thirumeni Sunthararaja Suntharalingam Subendran	M M	24 23	Vellaveli	Batticaloa	Shot dead by Special Task Force Police when going to see relatives in Mandoor, prior to going abroad for employment.
***	24/06/00 (left out by an oversight in previous report)	Sinnathamby Selvaraja Kanthavanam Mangalan	M M	28 30	Valaichenai	Batticaloa	Two refugees from Kalmadu refugee camp were shot dead by Sri Lanka army, on their way to go fishing.

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Documented cases of ENFORCED OR INVOLUNTARY DISAPPEARANCES July 2000 to January 2001

(actual disappearances higher than documented by TCHR)

No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Incident	District	Incident
001	07/07/00	Arumugam Ramanathan	M	30	Mannar	Mannar	Relatives fear that he was arrested by security forces. Went from his village, Thotavelli, to Mannar to repair water pump and never returned. Mother reported him missing to the HRC.
002	07/07/00	S. Sakthivel	M		Colombo	Colombo	Student of Morattuwa University abducted by members of the security forces near the university. They arrived in unmarked white van. MP reported it to government funded anti-harassment committee.
003	08/07/00	Popalapillai Nantheeswaran	M	21	Mannampiddy	Batticaloa	Abducted by men in white van, reported to be Sri Lankan security force personnel in civilian clothes. He had been returning home after delivering milk. Army and police denied any knowledge of his whereabouts. Relatives lodged complaint with MP.
004	17/07/00	Tamil youth	M		Pettah	Colombo	Youth from Nainatheevu, Jaffna, abducted by men believed to be security force personnel, in white van, in Old Moor Street in business area of the.
005	21/07/00	Arulmalar Thavaloganathan	F	12	Vavuniya	Vavuniya	Pupil at Vipulananda Mahavidyalayam School, from Koomankulam, reported missing by the government funded HRC.
006	21/07/00	Gnanenthiran Gnanapirakasam	M	35	Thandikulam	Vavuniya	Arrested at his home in Thirunavatkulam. HRC unable to trace whereabouts.
007	21/07/00	Sasikumar Thillainathan	M	26	Colombo	Colombo	He was travelling to Colombo from Easwaran Lodge, Tharmalingam Road, where he was staying, when he went missing. HRC unable to trace him.
008	02/08/00	Sivasambu Thivakaran	M	17	Vavuniya	Vavuniya	Last seen on July 9. HRC unable to trace whereabouts. Reported missing.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Incident	District	Incident
009	02/08/00	Sivakolunthu Vijeyakumar	M	16	Vavuniya	Vavuniya	Reported missing since July 22. HRC unable to trace whereabouts.
010	02/08/00	Vijeyaratnam Vinobaji	M	16	Vavuniya	Vavuniya	Pupil of CCTMS school in Vavuniya, resident in Sreenakar, reported missing by HRC.
011	02/08/00	Sivakumar Sutharshan	M	16	Poonthoddam	Vavuniya	Reported missing by the HRC. Internally displaced youth living in Poonthoddam.
012	10/08/00	Sithilinkam Gajenthiran	M	39	Vavuniya	Vavuniya	University employee reported missing by relatives, to HRC. While returning to Vavuniya University campus after lunch, he went missing.
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