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TAMIL CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - TCHR

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Documented cases of ARBITRARY ARRESTS/DETENTION — July 2002— January 2003

(actual arrests higher than documented by TCHR)

No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
***	June Left out by an oversight in previous report	Five Tamils	M		Mutur	Trincomalee	Political office of the LTTE in Mutur ransacked, five unarmed members arbitrarily arrested, in breach of the Ceasefire Agreement. Complaint lodged to SLMM.
001 002 003	02.07.02	Vimal Isaikuvil Alagan	M M M		Mutur	Trincomalee	Three unarmed LTTE members arbitrarily arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy while travelling between Mutur Upparuby boat.
004 005	03.07.02	Sabesan Vangee	M M		Kanniya	Trincomalee	Unarmed LTTE members arbitrarily arrested by Sri Lanka army while travelling between Kanniya and Vilgam Vihara.
006	19.07.02	Mr Senathy	M		Batticaloa	Batticaloa	Head of LTTE’s political office in Andankulam indiscriminately arrested and interrogated by Sri Lankan army.
007 008	10.09.02	Arumugam Viknaraja Rajadurai Uthayaseelan	M M	47 27	Point Pedro - Kodaddy	Jaffna	President of Point Pedro Kodaddy Fishermen’s Society arbitrarily arrested by Sri Lankan army, in breach of the Ceasefire Agreement.
009 010 011	12.09.02	Ponnusamy Wijeratnam Uthayaseelan Vikraraja	M M M	58	Point Pedro - Koddady	Jaffna	Arbitrary arrest of three fishermen by Sri Lankan army.
012	13.09.02	Ponnuchchanni Jeyarynam	M	59	Munai Beach Point Pedro	Jaffna	Fisherman arrested by Sri Lanka army.
013	19.09.02	Ten civilians	M		Point Pedro	Jaffna	Fishermen arbitrarily arrested by Sri Lanka police. Harassment and interrogation of fishermen continues.
014	03.11.02	Balakirushan Balasothy	M		Point Pedro	Jaffna	Arbitrarily arrested by Sri Lankan police.
015	12.12.02	Four Tamils	M F		Uthayapuram	Ampara	Arbitrary arrest of two male and two female unarmed members of the LTTE, by….. in breach of the CA.

TAMIL CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - TCHR

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Documented cases of E.J. KILLINGS / SUMMARY EXECUTIONS — July 2002 — January 2003

(actual killings higher than documented by TCHR)

No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Incident	District	Incident
001 002	07.07.02	Chandana Edirisinghe Suneera Dissanayake	F F	11 11	Maha Vilankam	Trincomalee	First child died immediately, second died in hospital after grenades exploded in school grounds. The grenades had been left by the Sri lankan army which had occupied the school previously.
003 004 005	24.07.02	W.D. Kulatunga D.S. Ratnasingha R.M. Mahen Kumara	M M M		Madhu	Vavuniya	Bodies of the driver, conductor and cleaner of a bus taking pilgrims to Madhu, were found by Tamil Eelam police. The bodies had knife wounds and evidence of strangulation.
006	29.07.02	Several civilians			Nunavil	Jaffna	Several skeletons without skulls found by IDPs returning home. Believed to be residents killed during Sri Lankan army operations two years ago.
007	05.08.02	Jeyabalasingham Jayachandra	M	26	Ariyalai	Jaffna	Young driver transporting building materials killed when mine exploded.
008	09.10.02	Seven Tamil civilans			Kanchirakunda Thirukovil	Ampara	Killed by Special Task Force personnel who opened fire on a public protest. Four students were among the dead. Many others injured.
009	11.10.02	Three Tamils civilians	M		Anpuvallipuram	Trincomalee	Two people killed by Sri Lanka police gunfire. One believed to be killed by Sinhala homeguards.
010	22.10.02	Lucia Aurampillai	F	42	Kallundankulam	Vavuniya	The day after she left home as usual to take cattle to graze, her dead body was found near a Sri Lanka army camp at Iratperiyakulam. Postmortem established she had been raped and strangled.
011	13.11.02	One civilian	M		Mirusuvil	Jaffna	Skull found in refuse dump in residential area recently vacated by Sri Lanka army.
012	18.11.02	Karzi Mohammed Rameez	M	22	Katugoda	Galle	Muslim youth shot dead by Sri Lanka police.
013	30.12.02	Ponnar Gnaneswaran	M	32	Off coast of Thondamanaru	Jaffna	Fisherman went missing after Sri Lanka Navy personnel rammed small fishing vessel. His headless body was washed ashore near KKS and found on 07.01.02 Identified by parents. Two other fisherman injured in same incident.
014	31.12.02	Yakub Javed	M	35	Mutur	Trincomalee	Muslim fisherman killed by Sri Lanka Navy. Complaint lodged with SLMM.

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Documented cases of RAPE / TORTURE and OTHERS — July 2002 — January 2003

(actual rape / torture etc. higher than documented by TCHR)

No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Incident	District	Incident
***	19.06.02 Left out by an oversight in previous report	Anthonypillai Francis Rathakumar	M	39	Vallaiveli	Jaffna	IDP recently resettled in Point Pedro (fisherman and father of two) was abducted, locked up and assaulted for six days, by Sri Lanka armed forces intelligence unit. Complaint lodged with police.
***	30.06.02 Left out by an oversight in previous report	Twenty civilians			Nanattan	Mannar	About fifteen soldiers from the army camp at Nanattan came into the village and assaulted the villagers. Incident was reported to Sri Lanka police, who, on arrival at the scene, also assaulted the people.
001	01.07.02	Veluppillai Thavachelvam	M		Vallaiveli	Jaffna	President of Jaffna Journalist’s association abducted by armed men in unmarked van. He was blindfolded and severely beaten. Complaint lodged with SLMM.
002	07.07.02	Child	F	04	Maha Vilankam	Trincomalee	Injured when grenade exploded in school grounds. Complaint lodged with SLMM.
003	19.07.02	Theekumaran	M		Batticaloa	Batticaloa	Head of LTTE political section in Chenkalady assaulted by Sri Lanka army. Breach of CA.
004	22.07.02	civilian	M		Vakari	Batticaloa	Sri Lanka Army intelligence officers interrogated and threatened this man for assisting in arranging a public meeting. He fled the area with his family, terrified.
005	05.08.02	Selliah Nixon	M	24	Ariyalai	Jaffna	Seriously injured when mine exploded. Admitted to Jaffna Teaching hospital.
006 007 008 009 010 011 012	16.08.02.	Lawrence Ravindran Stalin Alankaran John Mary Velayuthan Rasaratnam Ambihavathy George Soosapillai	M M M M M M M	25 34 44 60 32 28 54	Naranthanai (small island off Jaffna coast)	Jaffna	Seven civilians assaulted by six Sri Lanka Navy personnel, entirely unprovoked. Assaults reported to SLMM.
013	17.08.02.	Osmanraj Prakashraj	M	12	Punkankulam	Jaffna	Seriously injured when mine exploded in area which the Sri Lanka army had previously announced to be cleared of mines. Admitted to hospital.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
014 015 016 017 018 019 020	28.08.02.	T. Kugathasan T. Kandeepan A Prabaharan A Murugavel T Sivakolunthu M Sivarasa T Sahathevan	M M M M M M M	14 11 22 26 55 36 40	Karainagar	Jaffna	Sri Lanka Navy personnel, under heavy influence of liquor, assaulted these Tamil civilians. They had been asked to produce their ID which they duly did, and then they were assaulted. National (government funded) Human Rights Commission in Jaffna was notified.
021 022 023 024	02.09.02	Jenappu Mary Vasantha Thangavadivelusuthan Eight students Two civilians	F F	16 14	Point Pedro	Jaffna	Two young girls admitted to hospital unconscious due to the effects of tear gas used by Sri Lanka army on public protest demanding unfettered access to school grounds and public town offices. They were unconscious. Two journalists were assaulted by Sri Lanka armed forces and eight other students were injured.
025	11.09.02	Six civilians	M		Saakamam	Batticaloa	Masons, who were going by bicycle to their work on a World bank funded resettlement project, were assaulted by Special Task Force personnel. Complaint made to NHRC. As no outcome, complaint was made to SLMM.
026	21.09.02	Murugupillai Sripathi	M	57	Point Pedro	Jaffna	Principal of Hartley College, assaulted severely by group of armed men who entered his home, in the HSZ (High Security Zone). Admitted to Manthiki government hospital.
027	28.09.02	S. Ravindran	M	25	Kodaddy	Jaffna	Assaulted by Sri Lanka army after visiting his parents who had resettled in their home, which is in the HSZ. Admitted to hospital with head injuries. Complaint lodged with SLMM.
028 029	01.10.02	Anandasivam Sivakaran Gopalasingham Ravikumar	M M	24 24	Seas off Kankesanthurai	Jaffna	Displaced fishermen severely assaulted by Sri Lanka Navy when rough winds blew their boat towards KKS harbour.
030 031	09.10.02	M Visuvanathan Christy Rajah	M M		Kanchirakunda	Ampara	Head of the LTTE political division for Pottuvil and an LTTE member were assaulted by Special task Force personnel, as they were transporting materials for making a memorial. Serious breach of CA. Both severely injured and admitted to Thirukovil hospital.
032	09.10.02	Fourteen civilians			Kanchirakunda Thirukovil	Ampara	Injured when Special Task Force personnel opened fire on a public protest. Admitted to Kalmunai hospital. (Seven people were killed, including four students).
033	11.10.02	Twelve civilians			Anpuvallipuram	Trincomalee	Injured by Sri Lanka police gunfire, and grenade attacks by police. Eight of the twelve critically injured.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
034 035	16.10.02	Apputhurai Thayalan Thangavadivelusuthan	M M	22 22	Katkovalain Vadamarachi	Jaffna	Young fishermen assaulted by Sri Lankan army.
036	09.11.02	Seventy five civilians	M		Muttur	Trincomalee	Muslim fishermen severely assaulted by Sri Lanka police and gangs supported by Sri Lankan army.
037	18.11.02	Three civilians	M		Katugoda	Galle	Muslim youth injured by Sri Lanka police who opened fire. A fourth youth was killed.
038	07.12.02	One civilian	F		Nedunthivu (Delft island)	Jaffna	Sri Lankan Navy personnel attempted to rape woman, mother of four, as she prayed in church.
039 040	08.12.02	Sellan Kulendran Thiyagan Sevagan	M M		Batticaloa	Batticaloa	Attacked and seriously injured by ex-militants of the TELO, working with the Special Task Force. The first man, father of three, was admitted to Batticaloa Teaching hospital.The second was admitted to Arayampathi hospital.
041	10.12.02	Ratnasabapathy Sureranjan	M	26	Nelliayadi	Jaffna	Injured by police whilst walking on his way to work.
042 043	10.12.02	V Thavachelvam Eight civilians	M		Nelliayadi	Jaffna	Sustained facial injuries as a result of police grenade attack on civilians. He required surgery, transferred to Manthikai hospital. Eight others were injured, three seriously with gunshot wounds. Admitted to Jaffna teaching hospital. Police had fired on peaceful picketers with live bullets.
044 045 046 047 048 049 050	10.12.02	Theivendran Suntharsanam Kathi Visuvanatham Kithiravelu Kuhathevan Kanthar Balakrishnan Arumaitharai Vallipuram Mahendran Seharasa Indrakumar		27 46 40 25 40 48 24	Nelliayadi	Jaffna	Injured when police opened fire on people protesting against the presence of the EPDP in Nedunthivu island. All were admitted to Palaly base hospital.
051 052	30.12.02	Sinnathamby Sothilingam Kandeepan	M M	50 20	Off the coast at Thondamanaru	Jaffna	Injured when Sri Lanka Navy deliberately rammed their boat into these fishermens’ fishing vessel. Both were taken to Sri Lanka army hospital in Palaly and later transferred to Jaffna Teaching Hospital. A third fisherman went missing — his body was found washed ashore on 07.01.03.
053	31.12.02	One civilian	M	35	Mutur	Trincomalee	Muslim fisherman injured by Sri Lanka Navy. Fellow fisherman was killed. Complaint lodged with SLMM.
054	07.01.02	Senathirajah Jeyananandamoorthy	M		Valaichenai	Batticaloa	Journalist’s home doused with petrol, set on fire and attacked with grenades by group believed to be Islamist extremists. This group appeared to have acted with the knowledge of Sri Lanka army.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of Arrest	District	Incident
055	26.01.02	One civilian	F		Ganesapuram	Vavuniya	Two Sri Lanka army soldiers forcibly entered a woman’s home and attempted to rape her.
056 057 058 059	27.01.02	Venkatasalam Arumaichelvan Gunam Chandrakumar Joseph Premadas Sinnathurai Rajendran	M M M M		Coast off Vadamarachchi	Jaffna	Fishermen assaulted by Sri Lanka Navy with clubs and electric wires. They were forced to throw all their fishing tackle, food and fuel overboard into the sea.
***	21.06.00 (left out by an oversight in a previous report)	Yogalingam Vijith	F	27	Negombo	Colombo	Severely tortured and raped. The Supreme Court established on 28.09.02. that the Fundamental Rights had been violated of this woman who had been severely tortured and raped by eight police officers and an informant.
***	24.11.00 (left out by an oversight in a previous report)	Sathasivam Rahykala	F	28	Polonaruwa	Batticaloa	Severely tortured and raped. The Judicial Medical Officer’s report established in court on 20.09.02 that she had been severely tortured and raped by twelve police officers when in custody at Polonaruwa police station.