PCOI declared Naddalamottankulam training centre falsely called Sencholai orphanage by the LTTE was a camp situated in jungle area where school children were forcibly taken by the LTTE for training purposes.

The air raid took place on August 14, 2006 and by that time the LTTE had commenced a series of attacks on the Security Forces under cover of the CFA and the retaliatory action by the Air Force was justified as Sencholai was a military target.

The Commission found the LTTE responsible for indirectly causing the death and injury to the school children by exposing them to the risk of air attack at a LTTE training facility in a jungle area.

Several international NGOs alleged that Security Forces were guilty of killing innocent school children. A UNICEF report from New York alleged the 51 children staying overnight at the bombed compound attending a first aid course were "innocent victims of violence".

The Commission report made after recording evidence of the children in the jungle camp will greatly affect the credibility of the UNICEF in rushing to wrong conclusions, according to human rights lawyers. They point out that UNICEF swallowed the LTTE bait without due verification and therefore will have to face hard questions.

According to the Commission report, the children were made to undergo a course of strenuous exercises under an LTTE flag, first aid training, and guard and watch duty. They were shown LTTE films of bombs being dropped and parents weeping for the loss of children.

A senior Wing Commander of the Air Force, testifying before the Commission, said that the target had been selected with great care and caution after scrutinizing images from Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs), satellite photographs and field intelligence reports from ground sources. It had been established beyond any doubt that the place was a major training complex of the LTTE. The post attack disclosures via a UAV confirmed it was a training camp with pictures of smoke emanating from ammunition dumps and other inflammable material.

The Wing Commander disclosed photographs of post liberation evidence revealing plaques with NO ENTRY boards on the site, huge water tanks camouflaged with jungle green paint, small cell like rooms for black tigers, production unit for cyanide capsules and storage space for ammunition.

The Commission has observed that the tragedy could have been prevented if the principals of schools or parents had informed the Department of Education of terrorist activity but the brutality of the LTTE was such neither that parents or principals dared to do so for fear of reprisals.