Beach, Trincomalee town area

On January 2 2006, five high school students who were chatting on the beach in the evening were assaulted and then shot dead. The initial claim by the police that they were LTTE cadre who had died in a grenade blast was contradicted by the local coroner who noted that they had been shot, in execution style.

An official inquiry into this case is still underway and several STF personnel who were remanded in connection with this case were further remanded on July 18 2013. The case, known as the ‘Trinco 5’ has received extensive international attention and censure.