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Senchcholai bombing 14 Aug 2006

In the Senchcholai complex in Vallipunam in the Mullaithivu district hundreds of female students in the age group of 17-20 were gathered on 10 August 2006 for a weeklong training in leadership and first aid which was intended for preparing the students for leadership in their school and community during the impending war.
On 14 August 2006 around 7.30am, Sri Lankan Air Force carried out extensive bombing. 52 students and two staff were killed. 130 students were seriously injured. Many more received minor injuries. Three of the injured girls lost one leg and another girl lost an eye. A further three of the injured girls were sent by the Mullaithivu hospital to Kandy for treatment. Sri Lankan Terrorism Investigation Department (TID) immediately put the three injured girls under arrest. The three girls were eventually cleared and were brought to Vavuniya hospital to return to their homes in Vanni when one of the injured girls died. The other two girls were immediately taken back Kandy hospital. Eventually the whereabouts of the two girls became mysterious except that their parents were permitted to meet the girls at prearranged locations. The parents of the girls remain at a loss as to the detention of the two girls without charges for almost two years.
Names of victims (name, age)
1. Arulampalam Yasothini, 18
2. Balakrishnan Mathani, 18
3. Chandramohan Nivethika, 17
4. Chandrasekaran Vijeyakumari, 27
5. Kanagalingam Nirupa, 17
6. Kanagalingam Nirusa, 17
7. Kanapathipillai Nanthini, 18
8. Kandasamy Kumarasamy, 48
9. Kiritharan Thayini, 16
10. Kubenthiraselvam Lihitha, 19
11. Mahalingam Vasantharani, 18
12. Mahalingam Vensidiyoola, 17
13. Markupillai Kelansuthayini, 18
14. Murugaiah Arulselvi, 18

15. Muthaih Indra, 18
16. Nagalingam Kokila, 19
17. Nagalingam Theepa, 19
18. Naguleswaran Nishanthini, 19
19. Nallaipillai Ninthuja, 18
20. Navaratnam Santhakumari, 18
21. Nilayinar Nivakini, 17
22. Pathmanathan Kalaipriya, 18
23. Puvanesekaram Puvaneswari, 17
24. Rasamohan Hamsana, 19
25. Rasenthiraselvam Mahilvathani, 18
26. Raveenthirarasa Ramya, 18
27. S Jeyarubi, 20
28. Santhakumar Sukirtha, 19
29. Santhanam Sathyakala, 20
30. Sellam Nirojini
31. Shanmugarasa Paventhini
32. Sivamayajeyam Kokila
33. Sivamoorthy Karthikayini, 18
34. Sivanantham Thivya
35. Sivasubramanium Vathsalamary, 20
36. Solomon Singarasa, 65
37. Suntharam Anoja, 17
38. Thambirasa Lakiya , 17
39. Thambirasa Suganthini, 18
40. Thambirasa Theepa, 19
41. Thamilvasan Nivethika, 18
42. Thanabalasingam Bakeerathy, 19
43. Thanikasalam Thanusa, 19
44. Tharmakulasingam Kemala, 18
45. Tharmarasa Brintha, 17
46. Thevarasa Sharmini, 17
47. Thirunavukkarasu Niranjini, 18
48. Thuraisingam Sutharsini, 17
49. Thuraisingam Thisani, 18
50. Uthayakumaran Kousika, 19
51. Vairavamoorthy Kirithika, 19
52. Varatharaja Mangaleswari, 17
53. Veerasingam Rajitha, 18
54. Vijayabavan Sinthuja, 18
55. Vivekananthan Thadchayini, 18

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