George Jeyarajasingham

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George Jeyarajasingham - Wikipedia

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The memorial built to commemorate the memory of Reverend George Jeyaragasingham by the Jeevothayam Methodist Farm which is run to help refugees.

George Jeyarajasingham (died 13 December 1984) was a minority Sri Lankan Tamil Human Rights activist and a Methodist missionary from the Mannar district of Sri Lanka. He and three others were shot dead on 13 December 1984 when they were traveling in his vehicle. Later their bodies were burnt along with his vehicle.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Background

He was of minority Sri Lankan Tamil origin. He was born in the city of Komari in the eastern part of Sri Lanka. He was attached to the northwestern Mannar district Methodist church.

He was in charge of a big Methodist farm known Jeevothayam Methodist Center in a nearby village called Murunkan in the Mannar district. He was engaged in social and pastoral work with the victims of the many disappearances and killings which were taking place in that area. He was known to help the civilians by interceding on behalf of them with the local military authorities.

During military offensives by the Sri Lankan Army in 1984 as part of the ongoing Sri Lankan Civil War in Mannar region, a local Roman Catholic priest Fr. Mary Bastian and George Jeyarajasingham became the focal point of human rights activism on behalf of the local people. He and Mary Bastian became the local contact for the Sri Lankan government appointed presidential committee to investigate Human Rights violations in the Mannar district.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Murder

According to Pax Christi, on 13 December 1984 he was requested by the army to give evidence on some of the matters he was reporting. Along with his driver Abdul Cader Sulaiman, his Sinhalese wife Brigette Jeyarajasingham and a police constable named Jesuthasan Roche attached to the Murunkan police station, he was allegedly stopped by Sri Lankan Army personnel while traveling from Mannar to Murunkan. The victims were shot dead at point blank range. The perpetrators later burnt the car and the victims' bodies along with the vehicle. Mary Bastian collected the remains of victims including Jeyarajasingham and handed them over to the Jeevothayam Methodist Center.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Notes

The author of Speaking truth to power: the human rights situation in Sri Lanka, Fr. Pancras Jordan an Australian Roman Catholic priest and is a member of Pax Christi A non-profit, non-governmental Catholic peace movement working on a global scale on a wide variety of issues in the fields of human rights, security and peace.^[4]
The author of Sri Lanka: Untold Story, K.T.Rajasingham is a senior journalist from Sri Lanka^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Speaking truth to power: the human rights situation in Sri Lanka
^ ^a ^b ^c "Note to the incident at St. Patrick's". UTHR. Retrieved 26 March 2006.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Untold story by K. T. Rajasingam". Asia Times. Archived from the original on 19 June 2002. Retrieved 5 January 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ ""storage.paxchristi.net"" (PDF).
^ Asia Times Sri Lanka the untold story

External links

Jeevothayam Farm in Murukkan Archived 17 October 2012 at archive.today
Christian Aid in Sri Lanka at the Wayback Machine (archived 25 May 2005)

Sri Lankan civil war (1983–2009)

Origins

Combatants

Sri Lanka	Army (LRRP) Navy Air Force Police Special Task Force Home Guards Attacks on civilians Assassinations
LTTE	Divisions Air Tigers Sea Tigers Black Tigers Attacks in the 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Assassinations Suicide bombings
Other militants (list)	ENDLF ENLF EPRLF EROS PLOTE TELO
India	Indian Peace Keeping Force
Paramilitary groups	EPDP TMVP

Phases

Major battles

Major events

Leaders

Sri Lanka

Military

Army	Tissa Weeratunga Nalin Seneviratne Hamilton Wanasinghe Cecil Waidyaratne G. H. De Silva Rohan Daluwatte Srilal Weerasooriya L. P. Balagalle Shantha Kottegoda Sarath Fonseka
Navy	Asoka de Silva H. A. Silva Clancy Fernando D. A. M. R. Samarasekara H. C. A. C. Thisera Daya Sandagiri Wasantha Karannagoda
Air Force	Dick Perera Andibuduge Fernando Makalandage Gunawardena Oliver Ranasinghe Jayalath Weerakkody Donald Perera Roshan Goonetileke

Civilian

LTTE

Militant	Velupillai Prabhakaran Pottu Amman Soosai Karuna Amman
Political	Selvarasa Pathmanathan Anton Balasingham S. P. Thamilselvan

India

Military	Harkirat Singh Ashok K. Mehta Kulwant Singh Depinder Singh Dalvir Singh Krishnaswamy Sundarji
Civilian	R. Venkataraman Rajiv Gandhi V. P. Singh Jyotindra Nath Dixit J. Jayalalithaa M. Karunanidhi Vaiko

Aftermath

Background

Murder

See also

Notes

References

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