What Happened
Adampan village is situated in the Manthai West Assistant Government Agent Division in Mannar district. This is a farming village. The villagers have suffered endless atrocities at the hands of the nearby Thalladi Sri Lankan military camp for more than 20 years.
On 12.10.1986 at 4:00 am, the Sri Lankan military moved out from the camp and rounded up the Adampan village. They shot and killed the sleeping villagers and burnt down several shops. The military continued the attack until 11:00am. They threw bodies into the rice fields and on the road.
More than 20 civilians lost their lives.
Survivor Suvannah Sabastianpillai: "I was sleeping at home and heard blasting noises around 4am. We woke up to see what had happened. There was a helicopter in the air. We started running and were surrounded by bomb blasts. We ran to a nearby Muslim village. We returned around 12 pm. Things were broken, people were crying. Everything was a mess. There were jeeps everywhere. The SLA joined in on this. Two of my relations were shot and left on the road. We were tortured like this in '94, '95 and '96."
Perpetrators
Sri Lankan Army
Sources & References
- NESOHR - Lest We Forget Volume I