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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.

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Documented cases of RAPE/TORTURE and OTHERS - July 99 to January 2000 (actual rape/torture, etc higher than documented by TCHR)

No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
001	01/07/99	Five civilians			Nunavil	Jaffna	Severely assaulted and injured by Sri Lankan Army, and admitted to Jaffna hospital for treatment.
002	04/07/99	Three civilians			Kiran	Batticaloa	Injured in open firing ,by Sri Lankan Army. First taken to Eravur hospital then transferred to Batticaloa hospital for treatment.
003	19/07/99	S.Vijayakumar	M		Mannar	Mannar	Severely injured by Sri Lankan Army, admitted to Mannar hospital
004 005 006	19/07/99	V.N. Lawrence Mariampillai Ushananthini Velayutham Thanushkody	M F M	47 24 50	Mannar	Mannar	Seriously injured by Sri Lankan Army’s firing. Admitted to hospital.
007	30/07/99	Antony Krishnaveni	F	22	Kaluvankerni	Batticaloa	Arrested by Razeek group and tortured
008	04/08/99	Sivagnanasunderam Sri Kanthan	M		Wellawatte	Colombo	Arrested and in custody at HQ of Crime Detection Bureau, Colombo. Tortured. Hung by a rope and beaten all over his body
009	06/08/99	Saravanamuthu Kathiravelu	M	60	Jaffna	Jaffna	Farmer shot by Sri Lanka army, as he went to his field to water his crops. He sustained critical injuries to his left leg and hand. Admitted to Jaffna Teaching hospital.
010	14/08/99	K.Yoganathan	M	24	Paddiruppu bridge	Batticaloa	Along with other civilians the labourer has been clearing the undergrowth near the Sri Lanka army checkpoint as forced labour, when he was shot by Sri Lanka army firing indiscriminately, and injured. Admitted to Kaluwanchikudy hospital.
011 012	15/08/99	S.Thanushan K.Shankar	M M	12 19	Koduvamadu	Batticaloa	Injured by PLOTE gunfire.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
013	21/08/99	K.Nishanthan	M	07	Santhiveli	Batticaloa	Sri Lanka army gunfire seriously injured little boy as he played near his home.
014	21/08/99	Paransothy Mohanarubi	F	15	Muttur	Trincomalee	School girl from Chennayoor Central College seriously injured by Sri Lankan army shelling from Kaddaiparichchan camp. She was admitted to Muttur hospital.
015	24/08/99	Anthonipillai Binoth Vimalraj			New Asia Lodge		AI reported that young Tamil man arrested and then tortured at kotahena police station. Beaten all over his body, pins inserted under his finger-nails and iron rod inserted into his anus.
016	25/08/99	Seven civilians, including two children, Rasalingam Jenniffa And Kuruparan Nimalan	M M	10 14	Veppankulam	Vavuniya	Sri Lanka police on guard at the police point at Veppankulam refugee camp opened fire on civilians, seriously injuring two children. They were admitted to Vavuniya hospital
017	25/08/99	Sri Ram	M		Kotahena		Open University student severely tortured by police at Mirihana police station. AI reported.
018	01/09/99	Ratnam Nadarajah	M	46	Kalviyankadu	Jaffna	Business man abducted by unidentified men, in unmarked white van. Blindfolded and assaulted. Admitted to Jaffna hospital after his release at Navaly cemetery.
019	09/09/99	Civilians			Mayilankarachchi	Batticaloa	Villagers ordered by police to do forced labour, clearing undergrowth and building sentry point.
020	14/09/99	Thirteen Tamil muslim youth	M		Akkaraipattu	Ampara	Six youth seriously injured when shot at by security staff of Sri Lanka Minister MHM Ashraff. Several other youth also injured.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
021	15/09/99	S. Rusaanthan	M	8	Sungaankerni village	Batticaloa	Child shot, and seriously injured while in class at school, by Sri Lankan police.
022 023	25/09/99	Ritmalar Thalcam	M M	38 48	Mannar	Mannar	Injured in explosion. Admitted to Mannar hospital
024	26/09/99	21 civilians			Passara	Badulla	Injured in explosion
025	27/09/99	Ellalasingham Jeyatheepan	M	15	Aarukaalmadam	Jaffna	Abducted by unidentified men, on his way to school. Tortured. He was kept in an old building and his hands and legs were tied up.
026 027	28/09/99	Jegan Parameswaran Jeyanantharasa Jeyapriyanthan	M M	13 13	Thellippalai	Jaffna	Schoolboys from Mahajana College injured when anti-personnel mines exploded close to Sri Lanka army camp.
028	29/09/99	Rajeswary Krishnarajah	F	35	Vaalaithottam	Jaffna	Mother of three children, a widow, dragged out of her home and gang-raped nearby by Sri Lankan army soldiers.
029 030	30/09/99	Mrs.Ponnambalam Teenage Tamil girl	F F		Peythaalai	Battticaloa	Sri Lankan army soldiers attempt to sexually harass mother and daughter, having arrested the son on sep 19th who was living also with them.
031	07/10/99	Tamil woman	F	47	Thadumunai, Vaakarai	Batticaloa	Seriously injured by Sri Lankan Army shelling.
032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042	09/10/99	K. Prabakar K. Myuran Alagasuntheram Surendraraja S. Kandiah Sallamma Sureshkumar Selvarasa Rahulan Deeswaran Sivanantharajah	M M M M M F M M M M M	37 18 27 49 30 49 20 30 22 24 30	Vavuniya	Vavuniya	Eleven persons injured in grenade explosion at the bus terminal. They were taken to Anuradhapura. Four are seriously injured.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
043	09/10/99	Jacintha Vellayutham	F	21	Thellippalai	Jaffna	Seriously injured when Sri Lankan Army soldiers fired at her head.
044	12/10/99	R K Kumar	M		Pallivaasalpiddy	Mannar	Injured when shot by unidentified gunmen. Admitted to Vavuniya hospital.
045	12/10/99	60 Tamil civilians			Pesaalai	Mannar	STF commandos severely assaulted Tamil civilians as they walked on the road. The STF hit them with sticks and bicycle chains. They were warned not to report the incidence by the commandos.
046	13/10/99	Murukan Varathan	M	32	Pesaalai	Mannar	Severely injured by Sri Lankan Army assault. Admitted to Manthikai hospital due to severity of injuries.
047 048 049 050 051 052	17/10/99	Chandralingam Yogeswary Chandralingam Shaila Chandralingam Sajeedran Vijayakumar Rajeswary Shanmugan Gajendran Gurusamy Thanpakkiam		30 17 07 40 14 52	Uddayakaddu and Visuvanmadu	Vanni	Injured by Sri Lanka Army shells fired from Mankulam, Karippattamurippu and Ampkamam. Admitted to the hospital at Puthukudiruppu. The first three named are from the same family.
053	18/10/99	Several civilians			Vankalai	Mannar	Sri Lanka army burned five houses, and destroyed five boat engines, two boathouses and fences. Several civilians were injured. Sri Lanka police under effect of alcohol injured a bus driver and attempted to set fire to a bus.
054	19/10/99	Rev. Thevasagayampillai			Vankalai	Mannar	Parish Priest who complained to the authorities about the destruction and injuries caused by the Sri Lanka army on 18^th October in his village, was threatened with assault by policemen who came to his church to intimidate him.
055	27/10/99	civilian	M		Pesalai	Mannar	Shot and injured by Sri Lankan Police who then arrested him. Admitted to Mannar hospital.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
056	03/11/99	Civilian Three children	M	63	Paliyady	Mullaitivu	Injured by Sri Lanka Army shelling. In the afternoon three children sustained injuries from shrapnel.
057	03/11/99	Four civilians			Paliyady	Mullaitivu	Seriously injured in Sri Lanka Army shell attack in the evening. Admitted to Mallavi hospital. MSF PR expressed the organisation’s concern.
058 059 060 061	04/11/99	Shanthi T. Nakaratnam C. Maamankam C. Uthayakumari	F M F F	23 41 51 41	Villages of Palukaamam And Porathivu	Batticaloa	Injured in shelling by Special task Force fired from Kaluwanchikudy STF camp. Rushed to local hospital. Two later transferred to Batticaloa hospital.
062	13/11/99	Several civilians			Eeachanthivu	Batticaloa	Fishermen were injured in Sri Lanka Army grenade attack, as they went to lagoon to fish. The lagoon is near the Batticaloa airport SLA base.
063 064 065 066 067	19/11/99	Sinnathamby Kanthasamy Kanthasamy Kanakalingam Murukaiah Varathalojini Jeyaseelan	M M F	50 30 55 18 10	Kovilpuliyan-kulam	Vavuniya	Injured in Sri Lanka army shell attack. Two daughters of the first named person, who were also sisters of the second person, his son, were killed.
068	27/11/99	S. Balasamay	M		Karukkaikulam, North of Uiylankulam	Mannar	Injured in shell attack by Sri Lankan army based at Thallady SLA camp. Admitted to Mallave hospital.
069 070 071	30/11/99	Dayana Arulappu K.A. Sagayam S. Anthonipillai		18 34 50	Thalaimanar	Mannar	Injured in shots fired by unidentified gunmen.
072	01/12/99	Six youths	M		Peythalai	Batticaloa	Many young people, both male and female interrogated by Sri Lankan Army soldiers in cordon and search operation. Six youths taken into custody and injured.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
073	14/12/99	Young Tamil girl	F	13	Mawanella (East of Colombo)	Kandy	Gang-raped by four CID police and a Sri Lanka Army deserter. Her parents were threatened at gunpoint, she was dragged into another room and raped.
074	14/12/99	G. Jenitta	F	03	Panichankerney	Batticaloa	Injured on head by shells fired by the Sri Lankan Army from the Kiumichchai SLA camp. Shell exploded in the hut entrance, injuring the child.
075	20/12/99	Two civilians			Chilaw	Colombo	Injured by gun-shots in pre-election violence.
076	28/12/99	Alakipody Ramesh	M	25	Saththurukkondan	Batticaloa	Injured when members of Razeek group opened fire on him and three other youths.
077	01/01/00	Krishnakala	F	33	Thonikkal	Vavuniya	Young woman injured by Sri Lankan Army as shots were fired.
078	03/01/00	civilian	M		Rameshpuram	Batticaloa	Shot and injured by Sri Lankan Army who opened fire on villagers.
079	05/01/00	Tharmakulasingham Gajanthan	M	15	Pillaiyar Kovilady, Araly South	Jaffna	Sri Lankan Army Corporal forcibly stripped teenage Tamil boy and sexually assaulted him, having forced him to go with him to a hidden place. He was admitted to hospital with injuries
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
080	06/01/00	C. Yogeswaray S.Ilaxumy Maheswary Komaleswary	F F F F	30 36 42 39	Valaichenai	Batticaloa	Sri Lankan Army soldiers from Paythalai army camp driven in a truck by a drunk soldier, crashed into vegetable shop, injuring four women. Two are seriously injured, one with critical head injuries and both with broken hip.
081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095	06/01/00	Thirty three Tamil detainees, amongst those injured: Kishore,co-ord. Vavuniya Red Cross A Balachandran A Balasubramanium A Nadarajasingham A. Nandagopal Azees Chellaiah Ketheswaran Douglas Jeno Dunasekaran Jegatheeswaran Kandaiah Sivavadivel Ramachandran Sivakumar Sreethar S.Rajkumar V.Vinayakamoorthy	M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M		Kalutara prison, Nagoda hospital	Colombo	Tamil detainees assaulted by Sinhala prison guards. They were on hunger-strike protesting against years of detention, of many of them, with no legal charges made. Admitted to Nagoda hospital with injuries.
096	07/01/00	Fifteen Tamil political detainees			Kalutara prison	Colombo	Detainees sustained injuries as a result of further assaults from prison guards. Three were taken to Nagoda hospital.
097	Deleted
098	Deleted
099 100 101	13/01/00	Thevasakayam Rajakumaran Mrs Rajkumararn	M M F	67	Batticaloa	Batticaloa	Injured by Sri Lanka police gunfire. Admitted to Batticaloa hospital.
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
102	16/01/00	Three civilians	F M		Murakodanchenai	Batticaloa	Sri Lankan Army shells hit house close to Army camp and injured two children and their mother. Admitted to Batticaloa hospital.
103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112	17/01/00	Thambirasa Yokachandran, Kulanthai Vadivel Sekar Subramanium Mohanathan Kathiravelu Ratheeshkumar Thilairasa Pakerathan Seevaratnam Rakumaran Kunalingam Viyeyapaskaran Kumarasamy Uthasuriyan Nakenthiram Thamilnesan Vasantharajah	M M M M M M M M M M		Kalutara prison	Colombo	Ten political detainees write to the government-funded National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) stating that they fear for their lives, and appealing to the NHRC initiate legal action on humanitarian basis.
113	Deleted
114	18/01/00	Three civilians			Miyankalkulam	Batticaloa	Injured in shots from unidentified gunmen. The location was near Sri Lanka Army camps and sentry posts.
115	18/01/00	M. Pathmavathy K. Rohinithevei V. Puvanenthiran C. Kanapathipillai M. Theivanayakam	M M M M M	30 40 30 59 55	Kaluwanchikudy	Batticaloa	Injured when Sri Lankan police opened fire indiscriminately in the marketplace. Shops were subsequently closed. The injured were admitted to Batticaloa hospital.
116	Deleted
117	20/01/00	S. Jeyakumar	M	10	Mankerney	Batticaloa	Small boy injured by shells fired from Mankerney Army camp near his home. Admitted to valaichena hospital.
118	21/01/00	Civilian woman	F		Oluvil village	Ampara	Young woman sexually harassed and intimidated by home guards working with Sri Lankan Police from Akkaraipattu.
119 120	23/01/00	Shanmukarajah Pakyarajah		22 18	Morakodanchenai	Batticaloa	Two civilians injured by Sri Lankan Army gunfire. Admitted to Batticaloa hospital
No.	Date	Full Name	Sex	Age	Place of incident	District	Incident
121	23/01/00	Kandaiah Kunasekaram	M	45	Arialai	Jaffna	Father of four children seriously injured when shells fired by Sri Lankan Army hit his house.
122	23/01/00	Eskalan Sebamalaiamma	F	48	Koiyathoddam	Jaffna?????	Injured by Sri Lankan Army shell exploding.
123	30/01/00	46 Tamil political detainees			Batticaloa	Batticaloa	MP Joseph Pararajasingham appeals to President to direct Defence Secretary and Commissioner of Prisons not to transfer detainees from Batticaloa to Anuradhapura.
124	30/01/00	Three Tamil political detainees	F		Welikade prison	Colombo	Women political detainees severely assaulted by Sinhala women prisoners. Admitted to the prison hospital.
125	30/01/00	Tamil detainees			Welikade prison	Colombo	Severely assaulted by Sinhala prison guards after making complaints about the attacks on Tamil women detainees earlier in the day.
***	12/06/96 (left out by an oversight in previous report)	Shanmugam Manogaran	M	23	Batticaloa	Batticaloa	Arrested and detained by the Sri Lankan Army. Also detained by the Counter Subversive Unit (CSU), Pioneer Road, Batticaloa. Severely tortured.
***	05/03/98 (left out by an oversight in previous report)	Kalithas Selvam	M	49	Eravur	Batticaloa	Arrested and detained by Sri Lankan army. Then detained by CSU. Severely tortured. JMO report to Batticaloa High Court, 05/10/99, stated that he had been severely assaulted.