10th year remembrance of Chencholai Massacre carried out by Sri Lanka Air Force

         

Chencholai Massacre is one of the uncivilized, barbaric, inhumane and atrocious attacks carried out by the Sri Lanka Forces on Tamil people during the freedom struggle.

Today the Tamil people in Sri Lanka and abroad painfully remember the 10^th year of cruelty of the massacre of Chencholai, an orphanage where hundreds of parentless girls were taken care, which was targeted by the Sri Lanka Air Force on August 14, 2006.

Chencholai complex was located in Vallipunam in the Mullaithivu district where 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. 61 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.

The Sri Lankan government claimed to be monitoring the site since 2004 and claimed that it was a training camp and clearly stating that it was not mistaken or wrong target.