The massacre of up to 64 Tamils in Valvettithurai by Indian Peace Keeping Forces (IPKF) on August 2, 1989 was marked in an event by former Northern Provincial Councillor M K Shivajilingham.
Yesterday marked 32 years since IPKF officers, led by Brigadier Sankar Prasath, entered homes in the region after imposing a curfew and shot and stabbed residents to death.
Some young men were dragged to the local junction where they were shot and killed.
In 2010, the Sri Lankan army demolished a memorial monument that was built in Valvettithurai to remember the victims of the cold-blooded massacre. Although 32 years have passed, no one has been held accountable for the massacre that took place.
Read more here: ‘India’s My Lai’ – Remembering the 1989 Valvettiturai massacre.
