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==Government Investigation==
==Government Investigation==
There has been no progress in the case and no one has been convicted.<ref>http://www.glue.umd.edu/~pkd/sl/archive/uthr_b10{{deadlink|date=February 2015}}</ref>
There has been no progress in the case and no one has been convicted.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glue.umd.edu/~pkd/sl/archive/uthr_b10 |accessdate=July 14, 2007 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070313141202/http://www.glue.umd.edu:80/~pkd/sl/archive/uthr_b10 |archivedate=March 13, 2007 }}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

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Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi
Born
DiedFebruary 11, 1996

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

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. ^ "UA 35/96 Extrajudicial executions / Fear of further killings". www.derechos.org. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  4. ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20070313141202/http://www.glue.umd.edu:80/~pkd/sl/archive/uthr_b10. Archived from the original on March 13, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2007. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)