Tampalakamam massacre happened on February 1, 1998 when eight (8) minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians were taken to the nearby police station and shot dead by Sri Lankan police and patriotic Sri Lankan civilians. The victims include a 13- and a 17-year-old boy.[1] One of the school boys killed was Arumugam Segaran, who had his reproductive organs pierced and placed in his mouth by the perpetrators.[2] Later one of the accused in the murder case was shot dead by unknown gunmen[3]
On the day of the incident about twenty (20) police arrested the victims. After taking the victims inside the police post they were shot at close range. The Kantale police reportedly went house to house pressuring the families to write and sign statement stating that those victims were killed by the LTTE or that they were killed by members of the LTTE. Later a national television channel reported that six (6) LTTE cadres were killed at Tampalakamam .[4]
The alleged police officers have not been arrested. They were instead transferred to Kantalai police station and are still on duty.[5]
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