Prison massacres in Sri Lanka

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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

• Indian Peace Keeping Force • Rajiv Gandhi • RAW

See also

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

Prison massacres in Sri Lanka have occurred in regular intervals since the inception of the civil conflict from 1983.

[edit] Notable prison massacres

• The first recorded incident was during the Black July pogrom of 1983, at the Welikada high security prison in which 53 minority Tamil political detainees were hacked to death by their fellow Sinhalese prisoners.

• The second incident happened in 2000 when 26 young minority Tamil detainees were massacred by Sinhalese villages at the Bindunuwewa low security detention center.

• There was also a prison massacre in which 3 minority Tamil detainees were massacred at the Kalutara high security detention center.

No-one has been held responsible for these acts.

[edit] See also

• Black July
• Ethnic problem in Sri Lanka

[edit] References

• ↑  UTHR(J) report on Welikada prison massacre
• ↑ HRW report on prison massacres
• ↑ AHRC report on Prison massacres