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Twenty years ago this week, seventeen aid workers were found executed at their office in Muttur. Sixteen were Tamil, one was Muslim, and all worked for the French humanitarian organisation Action contre la Faim, having stayed behind in a town consumed by fighting to serve families displaced by war and still recovering from the tsunami. Fifteen lay face down in the compound, shot at point-blank range through the head and neck. Two more, who appear to have tried to flee, were found in a vehicle nearby. Two decades on, not a single person has been charged.
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