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Being in the high security zone for 25 years, the village had become a jungle area, cancer home ruins and the pond near the temple were the only landmarks visible in the Google satellite map until it was released to the owners in April 2015.
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According to word of mouth passed down by ancestors of the village, it was founded by few families about few hundred years ago and expanded into more than hundred families. Most of the families are interrelated and familiar with one another.
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Varuthalaivilan
American Mission Tamil mixed school was established by Vinasithampy Thamppipillai in 1866 and it was functioning at the village until June 1990. The school building was located in the middle part of the village.
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Vinayagar temple in Varuththalaivilan is about 300 years old and an Amman temple further north of the Vinayagar temple said to be even older. A pond and a large
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Oct 1987, hostilities broke out between IPKF and LTTE resulted in village came under IPKF control consequently the village was cut off from rest of the Jaffna peninsula. In the battle to take control of
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Varuthalaivilan youth league was kicked off in early 20th century. It owns a playground and
Varuthalivilan community center which is located adjacent to cancer home but currently damaged
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Nov 19 1984, Brigadier
Ariyapperuma got killed in a mine explosion on the Vallai-Tellipalai-Araly road near the village resulting in five houses burnt down in the village in retaliation.
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in the early eighteen hundreds resulted in producing large number professionals. More details of
American Ceylon mission is available at Yale University library web site.
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near the temple make a good landmark. The temple is highly revered by not only the people from the village but also from the people from neighboring villages.
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town from the Palaly military base resulting in three people shot and killed in the village. The army return to the base due to resistance from Tamil rebels.
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A cancer home was built at the village in 1989 in the land donated by
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Varuthalivilan map before civil war showing houses in one part of the village
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