Slain Tamil students remembered in Trincomalee
The five Tamil students summarily executed by Sri Lankan Special Task Force troops 16 years ago were remembered on Sunday at Trincomalee beach, where they were murdered.
06 January 2022
The case – known as the 'Trinco 5' – remains one of the highest-profile killings in Sri Lanka to receive international attention, listed in 2014 by the then UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' report on the island as one of four ‘emblematic cases’ of the government's failure to ensure accountability and having been raised repeatedly in international forums.
The five slain students, who were all 20-years-old when killed, are:
Manoharan Ragihar (22.09.1985)
Yogarajah Hemachchandra (04.03.1985)
Logitharajah Rohan (07.04.1985)
Thangathurai Sivanantha (06.04.1985)
Shanmugarajah Gajendran (16.09.1985)
To date, no one has been held accountable for the murder.
Read more here: Still searching for justice - 16 years on from Trinco 5 killings.
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