Maheswary Velautham

Maheswary Velautham
Maheswary Velautham (died May 13, 2008) was a founder of Forum for Human Dignity, a non-governmental organization, and a human rights lawyer and 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. BBC News South Asia
According to pro- rebel

Tamilnet

news service, she was killed by unknown gunmen on May 13, 2008, at her residence in the

Jaffna peninsula

. The government and

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