Thambipillai Thanalakshmi

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name = Thambipillai Thanalakshmi


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Thambipillai Thanalakshmi is a minority Sri Lankan Tamil woman who was 43 when she was raped in Meesalai in Jaffna in Sri Lanka on July 7 2001. Amnesty International claimed that the Sri Lankan Army soldiers were the culprit.

Incident

According to Amnesty International, Thanalakshmi was dragged outside her house at around 8.30pm allegedly by several soldiers. Her mother hearing her screaming came to save her but was assaulted by the perpetrators. Thanalakshmi was taken to a rice field and raped by at least three of them. The next morning relatives lodged a police complaint and police recovered part of Thanalakshmi's clothes from the rice field and a medical examination done by the medical personnel at Mantikai hospital confirmed she had been raped. [http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engasa370012002 Amnesty International Thambipillai Thanalakshmi] ]

Government investigation

Suspected soldiers were arrested and produced before a Magistrate on July 13 2001. But no charges were filed as of January 28 2002. [ [http://www.hri.ca/fortherecord2003/documentation/commission/e-cn4-2003-75-add2.htm Human rights report] ]

ee also

*Ilayathambi Tharsini
*Ida Carmelitta
*Sarathambal
*Murugesapillai Koneswary

References