[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.

[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.

[8] According to pro-rebel Tamilnet, a local activist who worked to expose her case was killed by unknown gunmen on 1 February 2007.

[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 .