Kumarapuram is a panchayat town in Kanyakumari district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Kumarapuram massacre also known as 1996 Trincomalee massacre or 1996 Killiveddy massacre refers to the murder of 24 minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians including 13 women and 9 children below the age of 12 allegedly by the Sri Lankan security forces on February 11, 1996 in a village called Kumarapuram in the eastern district of Trincomalee. Further 28 civilians were severely injured as well. It was a notable mass murder of civilians since the resumption of armed conflict between rebel forces and Sri Lankan armed forces since April 1995 as part of the Sri Lankan civil war. The then government arrested number of soldiers and home guards who allegedly carried out the massacre and a court case was started on 2004. On 27 July 2016 the court acquitted six former army Corporals who were accused over the massacre, after they were found not guilty.
Petrovce nad Laborcom is a village and municipality in Michalovce District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia.
The Kallarawa massacre was carried out by the LTTE, an organisation which has been banned in 32 countries including the US, Australia, EU, India and Canada due to its terrorist activities.
Trincomalee massacre can refer to number of incidents of massacres of civilians in the Trincomalee district of Sri Lanka during the duration of the Sri Lankan civil war.
The Pingdingshan village massacre was a massacre committed by Imperial Japanese Army on September 16, 1932.
Arunasalam Thangathurai was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament.
Kumarathurai Arunasalam was the founder of Kumarapuram, a small village in Trincomalee District of Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province. He is younger brother of late Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) Member of Parliament for Trincomalee District, A. Thangathurai.
Stara Warka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Warka, within Grójec County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) north-east of Warka, 26 km (16 mi) east of Grójec, and 49 km (30 mi) south of Warsaw.
Rampurwa is a village development committee in Nawalparasi District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3689 people living in 542 individual households.
Muttur or Mutur is a town in the Trincomalee District of Sri Lanka and it is located about 25 km South of Trincomalee, on the Southern side of the Trincomalee Harbour. In Tamil it translates to 'Ancient village'. Muttur is Mostly Access by sea route after 2010 new sea side road is established to link with Trincomalee town via Kinniya
Thampalakamam is a town in the Trincomalee District of Sri Lanka and it is located about 20 km South-West of Trincomalee. It is also known as Tampainakar in Tamil chronicles written during the 17th century. Portuguese colonial officers who came to the general area after 1622 with the destruction of the Koneswaram temple, described the village as prosperous and large. It was the seat of government of medieval feudal lords of the area who had control over a region called Tampalakamam Pattu. It became the refuge of Hindus and their idols that were saved from the destruction of the temple of Koneswaram. Ati Konanayakar a successor temple was constructed in Thampalakamam. During the Sri Lankan civil war in the 1980s and 1990s the village and the surrounding area were severely affected, leading to massacres and depopulation. The village was resettled after 2002.
Kokkilai or Kokilai or Kokkulaay is a town in the Mullaitivu District, Sri Lanka. It is located about 40 km south-east of the District capital Mullaitivu. It is a coastal town, located next to Kokkilai lagoon, it is also close to Trincomalee District border.
Plęsy is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bartoszyce, within Bartoszyce County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south of Bartoszyce and 52 km (32 mi) north of the regional capital Olsztyn.
Stará Lysá is a village and municipality in Nymburk District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.
Trincomalee may refer to:
Manikatti is a village in Belgaum district of Karnataka, India.
Rayasandra is a village in the Tumkur district of Karnataka, India. It is located in the Dandinashivara hobli, Turuvekere taluk of Tumkur district in Karnataka. The village belongs to Machenahalli grampanchayat, has around 80-100 houses, the speaking language is Kannada. The village has mainly two communities Lingayat and Adi Karnataka.
The 1985 Trincomalee massacres refers to a series of mass murder of Tamil civilians allegedly by the Sri Lankan military and Sinhalese home guards in Trincomalee district, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka. The Trincomalee peninsula, which was home to internally displaced civilians, who had earlier been displaced from their homes as a result of the 1983 Anti-Tamil pogrom and the subsequent outbreak of the Civil War two years earlier. In a succession of events that spanned over two months, scores of Tamil civilians were massacred and thousands were driven out by the Sri Lankan military and Sinhalese mobs in order to colonize the area.
The Manal Aru massacres of 1984 refers to a series of massacres of Sri Lankan Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan military across numerous traditional Tamil villages in the Manal Aru region which spans across the Mullaitivu and Trincomalee districts. The motive behind the massacres were to drive out the local Tamil population from their villages, for colonization of Sinhala settlers.
