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as they were conducted in Sinhala. OP was not released at that time. I was sent back to the detention camp in Boosa. My parents visited me in the camp a few days later and instructed a family lawyer to represent me. ICRC officials also came to the camp and gave me a card with a reference number and asked me to keep it till I was released. I was produced before the court once again but was not released. 158 OP’s medico legal report, on file with Human Rights Watch, notes that “the burnt scars on his body are typical of the events described by him.” OP said he was detained for five months in the Boosa camp during which he was sexually abused by the inmates and guards. He said he was released from detention in June 2009 after his uncle managed to bribe the officials at Boosa prison. 158 Human Rights Watch interview with OP, January 10, 2012. 109 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | FEBRUARY 2013
Name: YT Gender: Female Age: 22 Date Detained: January 2009 Date Released: February 2009 Circumstances of detention: Late one evening in January 2009, YT was at her home in Vavuniya when army personnel conducted a search operation in her house and found a bag full of explosives. YT told Human Rights Watch she was asked to keep the bag safe by one of her friends and told the soldiers that she did not know its contents. Account: The soldiers asked for my ID card and found I was originally from Mullaithivu. They immediately handcuffed me and asked me to get into a van. In the van they kept calling me LTTE and punching me and hitting me with a rifle butt. I was photographed and my fingerprints were taken when we arrived at an army camp. I do not know where this was. From that point, I was beaten and tortured severely. The army officials questioning me would bang my head against the wall. I was burned with cigarettes and beaten with wooden batons and metal pipes. One day one female interrogator threw a fistful of chili powder on my face. I was not given any water to wash. I was raped in detention. Two soldiers came to my cell at night. I screamed and they gagged me. They forced me down and raped me in turn. They also burned me with cigarettes. They left me naked. I was bleeding profusely after the rape and was in severe pain. I told the woman duty officer about this the next day. I wasn’t raped again, but the beatings continued. 159 YT’s medico-legal report, on file with Human Rights Watch, confirms that she attended an accident and emergency clinic in a hospital abroad in March 2009, where her heavy bleeding was diagnosed as a miscarriage confirming sexual intercourse resulting in conception. Her medico-legal report states that “the scars on her body and her psychological state match her account of rape and torture.” YT told Human Rights Watch she was forced to sign a confession in Sinhala prior to her release in February 2009. YT said she was released after her father arranged a bribe to officials. 159 Human Rights Watch interview with YT, December 28, 2011. “WE WILL TEACH YOU A LESSON” 110
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H U M A N R I G H T S W A T C H “
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Copyright © 2013 Human Rights Watc
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Map of Sri Lanka
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Available information indicates tha
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sexual violence such as bites on th
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Not all detainees subjected to sexu
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surveillance of civil society group
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Methodology From November 2011 to O
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I. Background The 26-year-long arme
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The Sri Lankan government declared
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Senior government officials initial
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From 1990 to 2002, Sri Lankan civil
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of women and girls. In its response
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ongoing military control over admin
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damages. 43 The UN has reaffirmed t
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Rights Watch and other organization
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Criminal Investigation Department (
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For instance, GD, a 31-year-old wom
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international airport, and taken to
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Violations: Denial of Basic Due Pro
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on this aspect of torture. “Victi
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LTTE conspiracy to defame and demon
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