Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi


Arumaithurai Tharmaletchumi was a minority Sri Lankan Tamil woman aged 17 who was raped and killed by Sri Lankan Government Armed forces in Kumarapuram in Trincomalee on 16 December 16, 2005, and who became a cause célèbre of the Sri Lankan civil war because of this.

The incident

Tharmaletchumi went to bring her neighbor Moses Vijaya's son Antony Joseph from tuition in Killiveddy and while riding back she was taken to a milk collection centre and raped and murdered. Antony Joseph who tried to stop this was also shot.

Government Investigation

There has been no progress in the case and no one has been convicted.