LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists massacre 58 Sinhalese villagers in
17 Women, 2 pregnant mothers and 14 children - 18/09/1999
In the early hours on 18 September 1999, LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists struck at three villages of Punchi Seegiriya, Kalpengala and Bedirekka of Ampara, about 270 km from Colombo, Sri Lanka. During the past 16 years, they have launched several attacks on the Sinhala and Muslim civilian community, and this is the 131st such attack.
At least 58 Sinhalese villagers, including 17 women, 2 pregnant mothers and 14 children, were hacked to death with machetes and knives. The victims were dragged from their sleep and butchered. Those who tried to seek refuge in the nearby dense jungles were chased and killed. Some of the villagers who fled their burning homes as gunmen fired at them were chased and hacked to death in rice fields. Others were killed as they slept.
"The attackers broke down the doors of the huts and entered. They hacked and chopped to death the victims, some of them still lying in bed," local MP Yasendra Bakmeewewa told Media.
LTTE's killing spree started with the murder of their Tamil Mayor of
More than half of Tamil Tiger cadres are children some aged as low as 10 years. UN special representative, Olara Otunu who visited
We earnestly appeal to the international community to speak out and do whatever that is possible to condemnthe perpetrators of these abominable crimes against humanity masquerading under the term 'Liberation Tigers' and behind dubious 'Tamil fronts' in countries such as the U.K, France, Switzerland, Germany, Canada and Australia
Source : www.sinhaya.com
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