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{{Short description|Sri Lankan murder victim (born 1977)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Krishanti Kumaraswamy<br>கிருஷாந்தி குமாரசுவாமி
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| birth_date = 1977
| birth_place = [[Jaffna]], [[Sri Lanka]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1996|
| death_place = Jaffna, Sri Lanka
| nationality = [[Sri Lanka]]n
| occupation = Student
| education = [[Chundikuli Girls High School]]
| parents = Rassammah and Kumaraswamy
}}
'''Krishanti Kumaraswamy''' ({{
==Background==
▲'''Krishanti Kumaraswamy''' ({{lang-ta|கிருஷாந்தி குமாரசுவாமி}}), also spelled '''Krishanthi Kumaraswamy''', was a [[Sri Lankan Tamil|Tamil]] woman in [[Sri Lanka]] who was raped and murdered on 7 August 1996 by 6 [[Sri Lankan Army]] soldiers; the effort to bring her assailants to justice became a [[cause célèbre]] as a part of the protest against [[war crimes|atrocities]] committed by the Sri Lankan Army during the [[Sri Lanka]] civil war.
Krishanti Kumaraswamy was student of [[Chundikuli Girls High School]], studying [[General Certificate of Education|GCE Advanced Level]], after passing the Ordinary Level exam with seven distinctions. Her mother Rasamma was the principal of Kaithady Maha Vithyalayam. Her father had died in 1984. Her elder sister Prashanthi was studying in [[Colombo]]. Pranavan her younger brother was student of St.Johns College Jaffna had given his G.C.E (O/L) exams. Her neighbor Kirupakaran had got married just 6 months ago. Her family lived in [[Kaithady]].<ref name="TN">{{cite web | url=https://tamilnation.org/indictment/rape/960907krishanthi.htm | title=Gang Rape of Krishanthi Kumaraswamy by Sri Lanka security forces | publisher=Tamil Nation | accessdate=28 June 2021}}</ref>
==Incident==
On
Her mother Rassammah, brother Pranavan (age 16), and family friend Kirupakaran (age 35) became concerned and went in search of Krishanti. They were also murdered.<ref name=UNESCO>{{cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org/courier/1999_09/uk/dires/txt1.htm |title=SUNILA ABEYSEKERA: PEACE CAMPAIGNER ON A WAR-TORN ISLAND |accessdate=2007-08-11 |work=Collection |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614032831/http://www.unesco.org/courier/1999_09/uk/dires/txt1.htm |archive-date=2007-06-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Amnesty International]] issued an Urgent Action Appeal (UA 222/96) on 20 September for her.{{fact|date=July 2024}}
According to pro-[[LTTE|rebel]] [[Tamilnet]], forty five days later, the bodies of the four were later found in shallow graves within the army base. A three quarter width rope was found tied round the neck of Rassammah’s corpse. Kirupakaran too appeared to have been strangled in the same manner since the rope was wound tightly round his body. The bodies of Krishanti and her brother Pranavan were cut in several pieces and haphazardly wrapped in black colored sheets.<ref name="TN2/2/07">{{cite web |url=http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=21102|title=Jaffna MPCS President assassinated|accessdate=2007-02-02 |work=[[Tamilnet]] }}</ref>
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==Related to incident==
According to pro-[[LTTE|rebel]] [[Tamilnet]], a local activist who worked to expose her case was killed by unknown gunmen on 1 February 2007.<ref name="TN2/2/07"/> Her death anniversary is remembered in [[Chemmani]] and [[Jaffna]] the widowed wife of her neighbor whom she had married just 6 months before his murder also attended the event .<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tamilguardian.com/content/krishanthi-and-family-remembered-chemmani | title=Krishanthi and family remembered in Chemmani | publisher=Tamil Guardian | date=9 September 2018 | accessdate=27 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tamilguardian.com/content/krishanthi-kumaraswamy-and-family-members-killed-chemmani-massacre-remembered-jaffna | title=Krishanthi Kumaraswamy and family members killed in Chemmani massacre remembered in Jaffna | publisher=Tamil Guardian | date=7 September 2017 | accessdate=27 June 2021}}</ref>
==See also==
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*[[Premini Thanuskodi]]
*[[Sarathambal]]
==References==
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== External links ==
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