
May fortnight toll
32 Tamil civilians were killed and 12 were disappeared by GoSL operated forces during the first fortnight of May. All of the killings in this fortnight were carried out by direct face to face shooting by the GoSL operated forces except the killing of one student, a 15 years old was killed by SLA shelling in Poonery, Kilinochchi on May 15 2007. Most of the abduction-disappearances also followed an established pattern of white-van abductions from the victim’s homes. This include disappearances of four high school students in Jaffna and a young mother (37) with her two children in Trincomalee.
The bar-graph shows the distribution of the killings and abductions over the districts of the Tamil homeland. 
17 May 2007
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