Imprisoned Tamil prisoners who were massacred by the Sinhala Jail guards and the jailed thugs who were let loose are:
Welikade Prison Massacre (25th July 1983)
1. Kuttimani Yogachandran
2. N. Thangathurai
3. Nadesathasan
4. Jegan
5. Alias Sivarasa
6. Sivan Anpalagan
7. A. Balasubramaniam
8. Surash Kumar
9. Arunthavarajah
10. Thanapalasingham
11. Arafat
12. P. Mahendran
13. K. Thillainathan
14. S. Kularajasekaram
15. K. Uthaya Kumar
16. S. Sivakumar
17. A. Rajan
18. S. Balachandran
19. Yogachandran Killi
20. S. Subramaniam
21. Mylvaganam Sinnaiah
22. G. Mylvaganam
23. Ch. Sivanantharajah
24. T. Kandiah
25. S. Sathiyaseelan
26. Kathiravelpillai
27. Easvaranathan
28. K. Nagarajah
29. Gunapalan Ganeshalingam
30. Anpalagan Sunduran
31. Ramalingam Balachandran
32. K. Thavarajasingham
33. K. Krishnakumar
34. R. Yoganathan
35. A. Uthayakumar
36. G. Amirthalingam
37. V. Chandrakumar
38. Sittampalam Chandrakulam
39. Navaratnam Sivapatham (Master)
Welikade Prison Massacre (27th July 1983)
1. Muthukumar Srikumar
2. Philip Amirthanayagam
3. Kulasingam Kumar
4. Selachami Kumar
5. Kandasamy Sarveswaran
6. A. Marianpillai
7. Sivapathan Neethirajah
8. Devanayagam Paskaran
9. Ponnaiya Thurairajah
10. Gnanamuthu Naveratnasingham
12. Dr. Somasunderam Rajasunderam
13. Somasunderam Manoranjan
14. Arumugam Seyan (Appu)
15. Thamotharampillai Jegemogenandan
16. Sinnathambi Sivasubramaniam
17. Sellay Rajeratnam
18. Kumarasamy Ganeshalingam
19. Ponnampalam Devakumar