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'''Krishanti Kumaraswamy''' ({{lang-langx|ta|கிருஷாந்தி குமாரசுவாமி}}), also spelled '''Krishanthi Kumaraswamy''', was a [[Sri Lankan Tamil|Tamil]] woman in [[Sri Lanka]] who was raped and murdered on 7 September 1996 by 6six [[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]]Lankan civil war|Sri Lankan Civil War]].

Krishanti Kumaraswamy was student of [[Chundikuli Girls High School]], doing herstudying [[General Certificate of Education|GCE Advanced Level]]having, earlierafter passedpassing 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>

On September 7, September 1996, Krishanti Kumaraswamy went missing on her way home after sitting her [[General Certificate of Education|GCE Advanced Level]] chemistry examination at [[Chundikuli Girls High School]]. She was last seen alive at 11:30 am at [[Kaithady]] Army checkpoint in [[Jaffna]] as she used to cross the checkpoint daily while returning from school. She had been detained while cycling back home which passerby had seensaw and they informed her mother. She used to cross the checkpoint daily while returning from school .<ref name="HorstmannSaxer2018">{{cite book|author1=Alexander Horstmann|author2=Martin Saxer|author3=Alessandro Rippa|title=Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OJdNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT479|accessdate=6 July 2021|date=9 April 2018|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-42274-7|pages=479–}}</ref>

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 20th20 September for her.{{fact|date=July 2024}}

According to pro-[[LTTE|rebel]] [[Tamilnet]], a local activist who worked to expose her case was killed by unknown gunmen on February 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>

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