Arumathurai Thanaluxmi
Sri Lankan murder victim From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arumathurai Thanaluxmi was a minority Sri Lankan Tamil girl aged 15 who was gang-raped and killed by the Sri Lankan Army during the Kumarapuram massacre in Trincomalee on 11 February 1996,[1][2] and who became a cause célèbre of the Sri Lankan civil war because of this.[3][4]
Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi | |
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| Born | |
| Died | February 11, 1996 |
The incident
Arumathurai Thanaluxmi 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 gang-raped and murdered by Sri Lankan Army soldiers. Antony Joseph who tried to stop the soldiers was also shot.[3][4][5] She was shot dead by Corporal Kumara, one of the eight accused in the massacre.[2]
Government Investigation
On July 27, 2016, an all-Sinhalese jury of the Anuradhapura High Court acquitted the six accused former soldiers.[2]
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