Maheswary Velautham (died May 13, 2008) was a founder of Forum for Human Dignity a non-governmental organization, and a human rights lawyer activist from Jaffna, Sri Lanka. She was known for tracking the status of returned failed refugee claimants from other countries to Sri Lanka particularly the West.[1] According to pro-rebel Tamilnet news service she was killed by unknown gunmen on May 13, 2008, at her residence in the Jaffna peninsula.[2] The government and Eelam People's Democratic Party to whose leader she had sometimes functioned as an advisor on Human Rights issues blamed the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam for her murder.[3][4] Former EPDP member and aide to Douglas Devananda S.Ponnaiah claimed at a press conference in Jaffna Press Club that journalist Mylvaganam Nimalrajan , Atputharajah Nadarajah , K. S. Raja and Maheswary Velautham were killed by the EPDP for personal reasons.[5][6]
References edit
- ^ BBC News South Asia.
- ^ Maheswary Velautham shot dead
- ^ Advisor to Tamil minister shot dead in northern Sri Lanka Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Government advisor shot dead". BBC. 13 May 2008.
- ^ "Nimalarajan, Atputhan, Maheswary were murdered by EPDP : Former member of EPDP". Tamil diplomat. 30 August 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
- ^ "DOUGLAS KILLED ATPUTHAN, MAHESWARY - EPDP LEADER'S AIDE". Tamil Polity. 29 August 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
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