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Natpiddimunai massacre 10 Sept 1990

Natpiddimunai is a village in the Amparai district located 3 Kms from the Kalmunai town. On 10.09.1990, the Special Task Force of the Sri Lankan police, surrounded this village, forcefully entered the homes and arrested 23 young men and took them to the Kalmunai STF camp. The bodies of these young men were found in a mass grave in the Thampuluvil village on 12.09.1990.

Available names of victims (name, occupation, age)
1. Kasippillai Sivakumar, -, 31
2. Kunaratnam Suthakaran, -, 23
3. Kunaratnam Muralitharan, -, 21
4. Kulanthaiverl Ponnuththurai, -, 26
5. Veerakkuddy Thankavel, -, 27
6. Mayilvakanam Parameswaran, -, 27
7. Vellaippody Thavarasa, -, 23
8. Varatharasan Waratheeswaran, -, 20
9. Sathasivam Thankaththurai, -, 23
10. Sivanathappillai Thankaththurai, -, 23
11. Ekamparam Thamilvanan, -, 19
12. Ganappirakasam Thuvani, -, 22
13. Kanabathippillai Nesaththurai, -, 22
14. Arumugam Nadesan, -, 29
15. Rasamanikkam Thiyakarasa, -, 23
16. Thampirasa Vivekananthan, -, 22
17. Thuraiyappa Nadesan, -, 23
18. Elaiyathampi Selvarasa, -, 30
19. Kanakaraththinam Thankavel, -, 19
20. Kanakasooriyar Kobalasinkam, -, 28
21. Kanthappodi Pusparasa, -, 23
22. Kulasegaram Selvanayagam, -, 26
23. Thampikuththu Bakkiyarasa, -, 27