Tampalakamam massacre
Tampalakamam massacre happened on February 3, 1998 when eight (8) minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians were taken to the nearby police station and shot dead by Sri Lankan police and majority Sinhalese home guards. The victims include a 13- and a 17-year-old boy.[1] Later one of the accused in the murder case was shot dead by unknown gunmen[2]
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 Kantalai police reportedly went house to house pressuring the families to write and sign statement stating that those victims were killed by the LTTE or that they were killed by members of the LTTE. Later a national television channel reported that six (6) LTTE cadres were killed at Tampalakamam .[3]
Result
The alleged police officers have not been arrested. They were instead transferred to Kantalai police station and are still on duty.[4]
References
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
 |
This Sri Lankan history-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
 |
This massacre-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- Articles with dead external links from November 2010
- Sri Lanka articles missing geocoordinate data
- 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
- Civilian massacres in Sri Lanka
- Mass murder in 1998
- Mass murder of Sri Lankan Tamils
- Sri Lankan government forces attacks in Eelam War III
- Terrorist incidents in 1998
- Sri Lankan history stubs
- Massacre stubs
