Chandra Fernando

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Rev. Chandra Fernando was a human rights activist^[1] priest from the town of Baticaloa in minority Tamil dominated eastern province of Sri Lanka.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Assassination 3 Controversy 4 References

[edit] Biography

[edit] Assassination

He was killed by unknown gunmen in June of 1988 in his own church[2] when the city was under the administration of Indian Peace Keeping Force per the Indo-Lanka peace accord of 1985. He was the secretary of the local Citizens Committee and was instrumental in highlighting human rights violations by all sides in the Sri Lankan civil war including the rebel LTTE group which was at that time battling the Indian aligned EPRLF, ENDLF, TELO and PLOTE para-military groups as well as the IPKF. There were many human rights violations committed by all including the authority in power.

Sri Lankan Conflict

Background

• Sri Lanka • History of Sri Lanka

Origins of the Civil War

• Origins of the Civil War • Black July • Human Rights Issues • Riots and pogroms • Attributed State terrorism • Prison massacres • Tamil militant groups

LTTE

• LTTE • Attributed Terrorist attacks • Child Soldiers • Attributed assasinations • Notable Attacks • Expulsion of Muslims from Jaffna

Major figures

• Mahinda Rajapakse • Velupillai Prabhakaran • Karuna Amman • Sarath Fonseka

Indian Involvement

• Operation Poomalai • Indo-Sri Lanka Accord • Indian Peace Keeping Force • Rajiv Gandhi • RAW

See also

• Military of Sri Lanka • TMVP • EPDP • Notable assassinations This box: view • talk • edit

[edit] Controversy

According to a report by Tamilnet he was killed by a gunman belonging to the PLOTE organization working for the local Indian Army administration^[3]. According to David Jeyaraj an ethnic Sri Lankan Tamil journalist based in Canada, he was killed by EPRLF/ENDLF operatives^[4]. Some majority Sinhala nationalist websites have blamed the LTTE for the murder[5].

[edit] References

• ↑ Tamilnet report on PLOTE Mohan's involvement in Rev. Chandra Fernando's death
• ↑ Evidence of Rev. Chandra Fernando's Human Rights activity
• ↑ Transcurrent report on murder of Rev. Nihal Jim Brown and mentions Rev. Chandra Fernando