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on behalf of the local people. He and Mary Bastian became the local contact for the Sri Lankan government appointed presidential committee to investigate Human Rights violations in the Mannar district.
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personnel while traveling from Mannar to Murunkan. The victims were shot dead at point blank range. The perpetrators later burnt the car and the victims' bodies along with the vehicle.
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A non-profit, non-governmental Catholic peace movement working on a global scale on a wide variety of issues in the fields of human rights, security and peace.
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and killings which were taking place in that area. He was known to help the civilians by interceding on behalf of them with the local military authorities.
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The memorial built to commemorate the memory of Reverend George Jeyaragasingham by the Jeevothayam Methodist Farm which is run to help refugees.
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collected the remains of victims including Jeyarajasingham and handed them over to the Jeevothayam Methodist Center.
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The author of Speaking truth to power: the human rights situation in Sri Lanka, Fr. Pancras Jordan an
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He was in charge of a big Methodist farm known Jeevothayam Methodist Center in a nearby village called
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in the Mannar district. He was engaged in social and pastoral work with the victims of the many
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The author of Sri Lanka: Untold Story, K.T.Rajasingham is a senior journalist from Sri Lanka
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named Jesuthasan Roche attached to the Murunkan police station, he was allegedly stopped by
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Speaking truth to power: the human rights situation in Sri Lanka
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and George Jeyarajasingham became the focal point of
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Sri Lankan Tamil
Human Rights
Methodist
missionary
Mannar district
Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Tamil
Komari
Sri Lanka
Mannar
Murunkan
disappearances
Sri Lankan Army
Sri Lankan Civil War
Fr. Mary Bastian
human rights
activism
Pax Christi
Sinhalese
police
constable
Sri Lankan Army
Mary Bastian
Chandra Fernando
Nihal Jim Brown
Eugene John Hebert
Mariampillai Sarathjeevan
Mary Bastian
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