Cited only as the origin of the photographs shown on the Gonagala record, not for any facts. The post is a first-person story whose author states that its names and places are fictional. The author says the photographs were taken at Gonagala by his uncle, the first photographer at the scene, and invites anyone to use them. The photographer is not named, and the date and place of the photographs have not been independently verified. The copies used here were scanned prints reposted on the ElaKiri forum in September 2026.
Before dawn on 18 September 1999, LTTE terrorists killed 50 to 54 Sinhalese villagers, including children, in Gonagala and two nearby hamlets in Ampara District.