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broke into both these cells where
Rajasundaram and David among others were housed. Nearly 40 prisoners armed with axes, swords, crowbars, iron pipes and wooden logs appeared before the cell and started to break the lock. Dr. Rajasundaram who went up to the door pleading with the assailants to give up
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Both were imprisoned for life for these charges. Following imprisonment, They were allegedly subject to both physical and mental forms of torture. Dr. Rajasunderam was severely attacked, his left arm dislocated, his ear drums broken and left on several occasions unconscious on the floor. On 25 July
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At the time of their arrest, the organization had 450 pre schools with an average of thirty students each were providing daily milk and triposha and
Kindergarten teaching facilities to village children. Mobile clinics equipped with basic preventive and curative medicine were making regular rounds to
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their violence was dragged out by the group who killed him by smashing his head with an iron rod.
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174:Kilinochchi
152:Social Work
72:Nationality
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266:References
194:Batticaloa
182:Mullaitivu
338:The Hindu
126:Gandhiyam
122:Sri Lanka
65:Sri Lanka
223:Meeting
186:Vavuniya
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170:Jaffna
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