Tampalakamam massacre happened on February 1, 1998 when eight (8) minority

Sri Lankan Tamil Sri Lankan Tamils ( or ), also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to the South Asian island state of Sri Lanka. Today, they constitute a majority in the Northern Province, live in significant numbers in the Eastern Pr ...

civilians were taken to the nearby police station and shot dead by Sri Lankan police and patriotic Sri Lankan civilians. The victims include a 13- and a 17-year-old boy. One of the school boys killed was Arumugam Segaran, who had his reproductive organs pierced and placed in his mouth by the perpetrators. Later one of the accused in the murder case was shot dead by unknown gunmen

Incident

On the day of the incident about twenty (20) police arrested the victims. After taking the victims inside the police post they were shot at close range. The Kantale police reportedly went house to house pressuring the families to write and sign statement stating that those victims were killed by the

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or that they were killed by members of the

. Later a national television channel reported that six (6)

cadres were killed at Tampalakamam .

Result

The alleged police officers have not been arrested. They were instead transferred to Kantalai police station and are still on duty.

References

{{coord missing, Sri Lanka 1998 crimes in Sri Lanka Attacks on civilians attributed to the Sri Lanka Civil Security Force Attacks on civilians attributed to the Sri Lanka Police Massacres in Sri Lanka Massacres in 1998 Mass murder of Sri Lankan Tamils People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Sri Lanka Sri Lankan government forces attacks in Eelam War III Terrorist incidents in Sri Lanka in 1998