Revision as of 19:45, 11 June 2022 edit Kostja (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 8,172 edits removed Category:1978 births; added Category:1977 births using HotCat ← Previous edit		Revision as of 03:14, 8 September 2022 edit undo Kanags (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users, Rollbackers 4,322 edits m September as per the citations Next edit →
Line 6: \| birth_date = 1977 \| birth_place = [[Jaffna]], [[Sri Lanka]] \| death_date = {{death date and age\|1996\|89\|7\|1977\|mf=yes}} \| death_place = Jaffna, Sri Lanka \| nationality = [[Sri Lanka]]n Line 13: \| parents = Rassammah and Kumaraswamy }} '''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~~September 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''' ({{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. ==Background== Krishanti Kumaraswamy was student of [[Chundikuli Girls High School]] doing her [[General Certificate of Education\|GCE Advanced Level]]having earlier passed 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 ~~August~~September 7, 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]].She had been detained while cycling back home which passerby had seen 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 20th September for her.

Krishanti Kumaraswamy: Difference between revisions