The Muttur Massacre was an incident that occurred on 4 August 2006 in Muttur, Sri Lanka, in the district of Trincomalee, during the Sri Lankan civil war. Seventeen local employees of the French non-governmental organization Action Against Hunger were executed at close range inside their office. The victims were all local workers: sixteen of Sri Lankan Tamil ethnicity – including four women – and one Sri Lankan Moor, aged between 23 and 36.
The massacre is considered one of the most serious ever committed against humanitarian workers in the history of NGOs. Years later, no one has ever been prosecuted or convicted for this crime. The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, United Nations Human Rights Council and University Teachers for Human Rights all hold the Sri Lankan security forces responsible for the massacre.
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