Personal data
Name
Thanuskody Premini
Date of birth
1985
Age
25
Place of birth
Biographical details
Chief Accountant of the TRO (Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation) which is a legally registered Charity in Sri Lanka.
Indcident
Date
29./30.01.2006
Location
Welikande Area in Polonnaruwa District
Description
While TRO Employees were travelling from the TRO Office in Batticaloa to the TRO Office in Kilinochchi, they were kidnapped by armed man and were kept overnight. Three women were released.
The male employees who failed to convince their innocence were killed. Premini was gang raped and killed. Her body was found in the bushes.
Legal situation (investigation/criminal proceedings)
This massacre was one of the few, selected by the Sri Lankan Government for special inquiry under the supervision of an international monitoring group headed by an Indian judge. The eminent person left Sri Lanka in disgust in 2008 after losing confident in the manner in which the Investigations were conducted.