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Midnight aerial attack kills two civilians and injures nineteen more in Kilinochchi

The residents of the Nanthan Kudiyiruppu in Kallaru in Kilinochchi were brutally awoken at 1.30am on 29 November as sixteen bombs rained on the camp of these IDPs who had displaced multiple times. Two civilians were killed including a five year old child and a further nineteen were seriously injured. Among the injured are seven children under the age of fifteen.

Sivakumar Rasakumary and her daughter Sivakymar Sutharsini

The residents of this area are IDPs from all parts of Vanni. The settlement was created for the recent IDPs by REERDO a local NGO. Following the heavy rains over the last ten days the IDPs in this settlement displaced yet again to higher grounds and returned to their shelters only on 29 after the floods had receded. The entire settlement of 100 families is now staying by the roadside unwilling to return to the settlement where they faced such losses.

Ramasamy Palaniamma

Many of the victims are from a few families whose shelters were nearer to the bomb explosions. The victims grouped by families are listed below.

Family one:
Killed: Sivakumar Sutharsan, male aged 5 year
Injured:
Sivakumar Sutharsiny, female aged 2 years
Sivakumar Rasakumary, female aged 27 years (mother of the two children above)

Nallaih Mathiyalagan and his brother Nallaih Jesintha aged 10

Family two:
Killed: Raman Ramasamy, male aged 80years (husband of the woman below)
Injured: Ramasamy –Palanyammah, female aged 77years (her arm amputated)

Kasipillai Rasenthiram and his son Murugan Rasenthiram

Family three injured:
Kasipillai Rasenthiram, male aged 60years (father of the man below)
Murugesu Rasenthiram, male aged 39 years (his left leg amputated)
Rasenthiram Rukmanithevi, female aged 35 (wife of man above)
Rasenthiram Thavaselvi, female aged 16 years (child of the couple above)
Rasenthiram Loginy, female aged 7 years (child of the couple above)

Family four injured:
Nallaiah Puspavally, female aged 28years (mother of the three children below)
Nallaiah Mathiyalagan, male aged 6 years
Nallaiah Jesinthan, male aged 10 years
Nallaiah Sasikumar, male aged 7 years

Family five injured:
Ananthan Kamalathevi, female aged 37years
Ananthan Chithra, female aged 9years (child of the woman above) Ananthan Velavan, male aged 18years (child of the woman above)

Others injured: Thaynatham Pavithiran, male aged 5years Periyathamby Sankarapillai, male aged 55years Kannathasan Amaravathy, female aged 40years Nagan Sunmugam, male aged 55years

29 November 2008

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Last update:
January 23, 2009 13.01 GMT

	Civilians
	Killed - 2341
	Displaced - 340,000
	Disappeared -1123
	Blacked out
	Evicted - 300,000

Family of six blown to pieces, surviving members unable to hold funeral

At 6.45am SLA fired artillery blew up a family of six, father, mother and four children, to pieces in Red-Barna in Visuvamadu. The four children killed in the family are aged from one to sixteen. Three more IDPs, two of them children aged 10 and 14, were also killed by this shelling incident.

Widespread shelling in Vanni including Theravil and Kaiveli kills entire families

SLA shelling on 16 January at 1.30pm on the IDP settlement in Theravil in Mullaithivu District killed a family of three leaving the one and half year old baby who was also injured with no one to care for him. The baby is receiving treatment at the Puthukudiyiruppu hospital.

Children from Tharmapuram packed under trees in Theravil

A striking feature of the IDP population that has just moved from Tharmapuram to Theravil are the large number of children among them. Babies in mothers’ arms, dawdling toddlers, young children eating raw mangoes, boys playing marbles or digging bunkers, girls playing hopscotch or caring for younger siblings, they are the ones filling the place.

For the third day in a row, very large scale civilian victims in SLA shelling

SLA artillery kills two civilians and injures seven in Suthanthirapuram

Widespread shelling in Kaively in Mullaithivu injures thirteen civilians

Tharmapuram exodus