Information About Incident 38059-72514-173951 in Anuradhapura Sri Lanka

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Viduthalai Puligal (LTTE cadres) killed a number of people in Sudanthirapuram area when they tried to flee.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Sudanthirapuram
• Matched District: Anuradhapura
• Actgroup: kill
• Actor: Viduthalai Puligal ( LTTE cadres )
• Subject: a number of people

Context

This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.

Meanwhile, the surrendered former media coordinator of the LTTE, Daya Master, and George Master, the former interpreter for the late political wing chief of the outfit, S. P. Thamilselvan, in an interview aired on Government-run television channel Rupavahini said they witnessed the deaths of several civilians as the LTTE cadres fired indiscriminately after the military breached the three square kilometre earth wall-cum-bund on the NFZ s western front border on April 20, reports The Hindu. Speaking in Tamil, Daya Master said, The LTTE is still using innocent civilians as hostages. They don t let them go out of the areas controlled by them. Viduthalai Puligal (LTTE cadres) killed a number of people in Sudanthirapuram area when they tried to flee. More than 200 people lost their lives at the hands of the LTTE in that area. George Master, speaking in English, said that after the humanitarian operations began, little by little civilians used the vantage points to cross over to the Government-controlled areas, adding, Many died when LTTE cadres manning the vantage points resorted to killing.

The original source are newspaper clippings and extracts collected by the South Asian Terrorism Portal.

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