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Lanka Army soldiers at Lingapuram on11 January 2005 morning
ganged up and beat to death a 40-year-old Tamil farmer,
Thanabalasingham, in his paddy fields, villagers have lodged a
complaint with the truce monitors in the east port town. Sri Lanka
Monitoring Mission officials based in Muttur town rushed to the site
following a protest by the villagers. Mr. S. Thanabalasingham, a
forty year old farmer was clubbed to death by soldiers of the Sri
Lanka Army at Lingapuram (LB Channel 3) in Seruvila division, in
Trincomalee district on Wednesday morning. A group of villagers
immediately held a protest to the killing in front of the SLA camp
in the area demanding an inquiry. On receipt of information a group
of monitors based in Muttur town rushed to the site, SLMM sources
said.
Tension in Trinco reports BBC -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2006/01/060111_trinco.shtml
"The number of people fleeing villages is on the increase says
RG Dharmadasa reporting from Trincomalee.
After the killing of a farmer identified as Dhanapalsinham Tamil
villagers specially women and children were seen leaving there
homes.According to a complaint made by Tamil National Alliance
parliamentarian R. Sampanthan to the Sri lanka monitoring
mission the farmer has been beaten up to death by army personal
and home guards.The farmer is said to have been attacked while
on his way to the paddy field in Manakattukulam, a hamlet close
to Trincomalee."
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