Vadamunai is a village near the border of the Batticaloa district on the Paduvankarai side of the Batticaloa Lake. This is located 25 kilometers from Valaichenai. On 7 June 2006, 20 people from this village were travelling in a tractor-trailer to purchase items for their homes. This is the practice of the people since the village is too remote and there is no regular bus service. Their tractor-trailer was targeted by a pressure mine attack carried out by the Deep Penetration Unit of the Sri Lanka military. Ten civilians were killed including a six months old baby. Another nine were injured. This deliberate attack on poor Tamil families living in a remote village was viewed by the villagers as a planned action aimed at forcing the people to leave the area so that Sinhala people could be settled there. The eastern districts of the Tamil homeland have seen many such massacres that were aimed at forcing the people to leave the area so that Sinhala settlements could be created in the same area. Remote areas are convenient for such activities because these are hardly noticed by the international or the Colombo based human rights groups.
The Vadamunai people have faced many such atrocities in the past too. In 1990 the people of this village was evicted by the Sri Lankan military. They began resettling in 1995. After the CFA, larger number of the evicted Tamil people began resettling. Following the Vadamunai massacre people are fearful to live in the village.
Available names of victims (name, age)
1. Iyathurai Srima, 33
2. Kasippillai Komathi, 40
3. Pathiniyan Sinnathamby, 56
4. Saravanamuttu Chandrakumar, 10
5. Saravanamuttu Dineshkumar, 11
6. Saravanamuttu Mathiyalakan, 22
7. Sivanesan Mathimalar, 24
8. Sivanesan Sinthujan, 0
9. Thalayasingam Thangaladchumy, 48
10. Thambimuttu Kavitha, 20
