Five civilians shot dead at the same time, bodies near SLA camp in Jaffna
Dead bodies of five civilians, who did not return home on 18 April night, were found the next morning with close range gunshot wounds near the main Puththoor SLA camp.
 Four of the five dead men were going in a three wheeler after dropping a sick friends at his home. It was stopped for checking at an SLA checkpoint. The men were late taken near the SLA camp and were shot at close range. The fifth man was traveling on the bicycle was also taken away and shot. Their bodies were strewn 100 metres from the Puththoor SLA camp. All five men were killed at the same spot on the road and after the killing the bodies have been dragged on the ground to where they were found. There was blood marks along the path where the bodies were dragged. Boot marks were also visible. The five dead men are, Balasubramanium Kannathasan (27)-three wheel driver; Kandasamy Gowribalan (32)-employee at Jaffna District Secretariat; Sellaih Rasaratnam (25)-Labourer; Thangarasa Kaveenthiran (27) – three wheel driver; and Mahadevan Kishokumar (20). All five men are from the village of Urani in Puththoor. Small scale businessman shot dead Thambapillai Ambikaipalan (38) owner of a shop on Palaly road near Kondavil junction in Jaffna was shot dead inside his shop by gunmen on a motorbike on 19 April around 7.00 pm. This is the sixth killing, since the Geneva talks in February, of businessmen in Jaffna, by armed gunmen in uniform wearing black masks on their face. Several more businessmen in Jaffna have received death threats from gunmen in uniform arriving in motorbikes with black masks on their face.
20 April 2006
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Europe which has a total population of 800 million is made up of 45 language based nation states. South Asia which has a total population of one billion, (1000 million) is comprised of four states. Who is preventing and therefore benefiting by limiting new nation-states in South Asia?
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