Action Faim is an INGO based in France that was working to assist thetsunami affected people in Trincomalee.
They had an office in Muthur located in theTrincomalee district. Following widespread
military clashes between the Sri LankanGovernment and LTTE in August 2006,
people were moving out the area. The staffof this INGO was ordered by their superiors
to remain in their Muthur office.The Sri Lankan military carried out a point blank execution of 17 employees
of this INGO on 5 August 2006. The military had buried the bodies of thevictims which were exhumed later for forensic examination. This massacrecreated an international outcry. This massacre was one of the few ofmassacres selected by the Sri Lankan Government for special inquiry underthe supervision of an international monitoring group of eminent person
headed by an Indian judge. The eminent person left the island in disgust in2008 after losing confident in the manner in which the investigations wereconducted.Action Faim is demanding an international investigation into the massacre.
Names of victims (name, age)
1. A Jaseelan, 31
2. Abdul Latif Mohamed Jauffer, 31
3. G. Kavitha, 27
4. G. Sreethraran, 36
5. Muraleetharan, 35
6. K. Koneshwaran, 24
7. K.Kovarthani, 28
8. M. Narmathan, 24
9. M. Rishikeshan, 28
10. Matahavarasa Ketheeswaran, 36
11. P.Partheeban, 27
12. Primus Anandarajah, 34
13. R. Arulraj, 24
14. S. Ganesh, 54
15. S.Romila, 25
16. V.Kokilavathani, 29
17. Y. Kodeeswaran, 31