Another 11 injured are still in hospital, some in a critical condition.
Many questions remain unanswered about the attack.
The police and the Colombo media have tried to pin the blame on the inmates themselves for protesting over their continued detention and portray the massacre as the spontaneous action of local villagers. But the villagers have denied any involvement and told the WSWS that the thugs were transported to the camp by vehicle from outside. The SEP's political opposition to the LTTE's program is well known in Sri Lanka. Rajkumar was first arrested in 1996 when he mistakenly boarded a bus bound for Arunapura, a village near the Eastern Province, rather than Anuradhapura, a city in North Central Province. The bus destination was written only in Sinhalese, and Rajkumar, like many Tamils, is unable to read that language.