Seventeen aid workers who were murdered in Muttur 18 years ago were remembered on 04 August in Trincomalee, where relatives and human rights activists lit candles in front of a banner with pictures of the slain youths.
The France Action Faim (ACF) workers team of 16 Tamils and one Muslim were gunned down on 04 August 2006.
They were in Muttur to look into the welfare of tsunami-hit people.
The Jaffna-based UTHR, in a report three years later, blamed the military for the killings, with a claim the area was under its control at the time.
It also gave details of the firearms used and other supportive evidence.
However, a presidential commission appointed in 2007 cleared both the Army and the Navy of the charges.
The then government spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella claimed the availability of evidence to say the area had been under LTTE control, but which were never revealed.
ACF has vowed to continue the fight for justice for its dead workers.