Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi

Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi

Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009)
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Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi was a minority Sri Lankan Tamil woman aged 17 who was raped and killed in Kumarapuram in Trincomalee on 16 December 16 2005, and who became a cause celebre of the Sri Lankan civil war because of this.^[1][2]

The incident

Tharmaletchumi went to bring her neighbor Moses Vijaya's son Antony Joseph from tuition in Killiveddy and while riding back she was taken to a milk collection centre and raped and murdered. Antony Joseph who tried to stop this was also shot.

^[1][2][3]

Government Investigation

There has been no progress in the case and no one has been convicted.^[4]

See also

• Ilayathambi Tharsini
• Ida Carmelitta
• Sarathambal
• Krishanti Kumaraswamy

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Sri Lanka: Wavering Commitment to Civil Rights Report by Amnesty International, 13 August 1996
2. ^ ^{a b} Asia: Refuge! Ethnicity and nationality. Refugees in Asia, Report by Amnesty International, 30 September 1997.
3. ^ http://www.derechos.org/saran/lanka/killings2.txt
4. ^ http://www.glue.umd.edu/~pkd/sl/archive/uthr_b10