[1] On 7 September 1996, Krishanti Kumaraswamy went missing on her way home after GCE Advanced Level chemistry examination at Chundikuli Girls High School.

[citation needed] According to pro-rebel Tamilnet, forty five days later, the bodies of the four were later found in shallow graves within the army base.

The bodies of Krishanti and her brother Pranavan were cut in several pieces and haphazardly wrapped in black colored sheets.

[5] Amnesty International and other human rights organizations like Women for Peace[6] launched a sustained campaign to pressure the Sri Lankan government to arrest and prosecute the soldiers.

[4] Her death anniversary is remembered in Chemmani and Jaffna the widowed wife of her neighbor whom she had married just 6 months before his murder also attended the event .