What happened at Muthur

On 6 August last, 17 Action contre la Faim collaborators were found dead, lying face down, shot, in the organization’s base at Muthur. These Action contre la Faim employees, 13 men and 4 women, aged from 23 to 54, were mainly water and sanitation engineers, specialists in agronomy, labourers, drivers...

Action contre la Faim associates itself with the pain and anger felt by the victims’ families and hopes to shed light as soon as possible on this barbarous and intolerable crime, which violates International Humanitarian Law and the principles of the Geneva Convention.

The work of Action contre la Faim in the field and of our assassinated collaborators

ACF has been active in Sri Lanka since 1996 on the humanitarian consequences of the war between the « Tamil Tigers » and the Sri Lankan army, then, since 2005, helping people made homeless by the tsunami.

In the Muthur zone, Action contre la Faim helps 1000 families by fostering better conditions of hygiene and access to drinking water. This emergency intervention was started to help people displaced following inter-ethnic tensions and the resumption of fighting in April and May 2006. Other programmes linked to agricultural renewal and other economic activities were also implemented in response to the needs of victims of the tsunami of December 2004.