Eleven Muslim Civilians were murdered by the LTTE terrorists. Their bodies were found after they had apparently gone to repair an irrigation system. Only survivor of the massacre said 'On Sunday evening suddenly a group of Tigers stormed the place where we were. They were armed with guns, sickles, knives and axes. They abducted us, took us to the forest, and blindfolded us. After it became dark, they attacked us with sickles, axes and knives.'
Three civilians including a three year old girl were murdered by the LTTE terrorists exploding a car bomb.
The bomb went off near a girls' school in a residential area of the city.
LTTE terrorists murdered 64 passengers and injured at least 80 travelling exploding a claymore mine on a bus to the town of Kebitigollewa in Sri Lanka's north central province. Most of the killed were children
LTTE terrorists brutally massacred 12 civilians working at an irrigation canal construction site in eastern Welikanda area last night. An eyewitness told police that 15 armed cadres of LTTE - some in striped uniforms and some in civilian dress tied the construction workers together and fired at them point blank range killing 12 instantaneously.
LTTE terrorists hacked to death a young mother while she was breastfeeding her infant at home in the Block C area of Serunuwara in Trincomalee this evening.
In a similar incident 12 hours earlier, LTTE murdered a three-year-old Muslim infant while he was with his mother.
LTTE terrorists massacres six farmers to incite ehnic rioting. Police say the Tigers massacred the villagers in the district of Trincomalee.
'Those farmers were working in their paddy fields when they were taken and shot,' army spokesman Brig Prasad Samarasinghe said, Reuters news
LTTE terrorists stormed a village in Welikanda and killed six civilians including a Sinhalese, four Muslims and one Tamil on Saturday night.
27th June 2002, Valaichenai
1) Hyath Mohamed Januudeen (26)
2) Hyath Mohamed Janushdeen (20)
The two brothers above were abducted and killed by the LTTE from a Tamil wedding in Petthalai, where they had been invited to cook.
3) Shahabdeen (37),
4) Saleem (15),
5) Anwer (20),
6) Hajamohideen (39) and
7) Mubarak
The five above were killed when the LTTE threw grenades and attacked a crowd guarding the Valaichenai Mosque on the same day.
8) H.M.Kaleel Rajman (22)
9) P.M. Ajwath (25)
The two above were returning to Valaichenai and are missing since being abducted in Kiran by an LTTE party under Jim Kelly Thattha.
10) N.M.Abusally (35)
11) H.M.Mohamed Usan (44)
12) M.A.Hyath Mohamed (42)
The three above went fishing in the Vahaneri reservoir are missing after being abducted by the LTTE on 27th June 2002.
13) Mubarak was killed when the LTTE opened fire and threw grenades at worshippers at Oddaimavady Mosque on 28th June 2002
14) A.T.M. Hussain (68) alias Kalanthar,
a Muslim auto-driver in Valaichenai, who was popular with Tamils among whom he had a large customer base, was murdered in the early hours of 5th January 2003
while at work. At this time the LTTE was threatening Tamils not to do business with Muslims.
15) Mahboobal Nayeem (28)
16.) Razak Jabir (25)
The two above were abducted by the LTTE when they went by boat from Mutur on the morning of 31st March 2003 to trade off the LTTE-controlled coast off Kadatkarichenai to the east. The two are believed to have been killed - the context behind tensions in Mutur (see forthcoming Bulletin).
On 15th April, M.M. Kiyathumma (48), the
mother of Nayeem, committed suicide by |