Personal data
Name
Yogeswari Tharmalingam
Date of birth
1966
Age
42
Place of birth
Thalaiyadi, Vadamaradchi east, Jaffna
Biographical details
Yogeswari Tharmalingam was a Tamil woman coming from the town Thalayadi in the district Jaffna. She was living with her family in Mullivaikal west, in Distrikt Mullaithivu. At the time of her murder, she was 42 years old.
Indcident
Date
02.06.2008
Location
Karuppaddamurippu, Mullaithivu
Description
Claymore attacks on public transport services, ambulances, and private vehicles carried out by the Sri Lankan military were typical terror acts against Tamil civilians. On 02 June 2008, Yogeswari Tharmalingam was returning in a van with her daughter, granddaughter, and members of other two families from a temple festival of a locally famous Nahathambiran Hindu temple. Around 8.00 pm, as the van was travelling on Oddisuddan-Mankulam road it came under a claymore attack of the Deep Penetration Unit (DPU) of the Sri Lanka military near the village Karuppaddamurippu (8 km from Mankulam). Six of the victims including Yogeswari and her grandaughter were killed on the spot. The four injured people were transferred to Mullaithivu hospital after a long delay.
Legal situation (investigation/criminal proceedings)
To data, no one of the responsible persons were held accountable – neither soldiers nor their chief commander, who were involved in this attack. There was no investigation or any criminal proceedings concerning this massacre.