What Happened
Twenty-five Tamil detainees were massacred and sixteen others were seriously wounded Wednesday when hundreds of villagers attacked the Bindunuwewa detention centre, in the Bandarawela district, about 65 km. south of Kandy, police said. Villagers, numbering more than one thousand, armed with knives, clubs and sticks stormed Bindunuwewa detention centre in the early hours of Wednesday and attacked the inmates. The mobs later set fire to the centre, which houses people arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and held for rehabilitation, police sources said. The inmates of the center who had gone through a three-month rehabilitation programme had been demanding their release few days ago.
Perpetrators
Sri Lankan Army
Sources & References
- https://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=5522