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Vankalai massacre

Vankalai massacre
Our Lady of St. Anne's Church in Vankalai
LocationVankalai, Mannar district, Sri Lanka
DateJune 8, 2006 (+6 GMT)
TargetSri Lankan Tamil civilians
Attack type
Torture, Strangulation
WeaponsGuns
Deaths4
Perpetrators'Sri Lankan Army

The Vankalai massacre was a massacre of a family of four minority Sri Lankan Tamils at the hands of the Sri Lankan military personnel from the village of Vankalai in Mannar District, Sri Lanka on June 8, 2006. The victims were tortured and the mother was gang raped before her murder.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ "Genocide Against Tamil People: Massacres, Pogroms, Destruction of Property, Sexual Violence and Assassinations of Civil Society Leaders" (PDF). People's Tribunal on Sri Lanka (PTSL). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference NESHOR was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference tamilnet-1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Mother gang raped, family massacred". Lankanewspaper. Retrieved 17 July 2011.

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