On 29 January and 30 January 2006, ten Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) employees were abducted in two separate incidents in the Welikande area in the Polonnaruwa district while they were travelling from the TRO office in Batticaloa to the TRO office in Kilinochchi.
Two women were released in a few days. Another woman S Dosini was also released by the abductors. Seven TRO employees are still missing. Amnesty International issued an Urgent Action appeal on 10 March 2006 for their release.
This massacre was one of the few of massacres selected by the Sri Lankan Government for special inquiry under the supervision of an international monitoring group of eminent person headed by an Indian judge. The eminent person left the island in disgust in 2008 after losing confident in the manner in which the investigations were conducted.
Names of victims (name, age)
1. Arulthevarasa Satheskaran, TRO AID worker
2. Kailayapillai Ravinthiran, TRO AID worker
3. Shanmuganathan Swenthiran, TRO AID worker
4. Thampirasah Vasantharajan, TRO AID worker
5. Thanuskody Premini, TRO AID worker
6. Kasinathar Ganeshalinga, TRO AID worker
7. Kathirkamar Thangarasa, TRO AID worker