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Name: NJ Gender: Female Age: 20 Date Detained: January 2009 Date Released: January 2009 Circumstances of detention: In January 2009, NJ was arrested by the Sri Lankan army at Nedunkeerni (equidistant between Kilinochchi and Vavuniya), taken to the Gamini Mahavidyalayam camp, and then taken to Joseph camp in Vavuniya. Account: The soldiers told me I worked for the LTTE and must tell them about my activities. I was very scared but said that I did not. They started beating me. I was slapped and kicked with boots. They burned me with cigarettes on my arm and back. Two men forced a petrol-infused plastic bag on my head in an attempt to asphyxiate me and I was unconscious. I was pushed around and my head was smashed against the wall. Throughout the questioning, the men groped my genitals and breasts. They raped me during interrogation. I am too ashamed about this. This has ruined my life. 160 NJ’s medico legal report, on file with Human Rights Watch, notes that the scarring on her body was due to cigarette burns and blunt instrument trauma. NJ told Human Rights Watch she was released from detention after her family bribed soldiers through members of PLOTE. 160 Human Rights Watch interview with NJ, January 10, 2012. 111 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | FEBRUARY 2013
Name: RS Gender: Male Age: 27 Date Detained: Sometime in 2009 Date Released: cannot recall Circumstances of detention: RS was friendly with R., a known LTTE political member in his village near Vavuniya. R. moved away from the village when fighting between the LTTE and the government forces renewed in 2006. In January 2007, the LTTE bombed a bridge while an army vehicle was crossing it and R became a prime suspect. Looking for R., CID officials arrested RS in 2009. In his medical interview, RS said he was blindfolded, dragged, pushed into a jeep, and told he was being taken to a police station. Account (via a Europe-based medical worker/doctor who interviewed RS): RS told his medical interviewer he was taken to a small room where he was photographed and fingerprinted. His hands were then tied behind his back and he was taken to a smaller room. The smaller room was dark except during interrogations, the floor was bare, and there was no bedding. The toilet was a hole in the floor. For the first three weeks of his imprisonment, RS said he was interrogated in this room and repeatedly questioned about R.’s whereabouts. After a few more weeks, he was moved to a cell that he shared with four other inmates. He was later informed that he was in Joseph camp. RS said he was stripped to his underpants, kicked and beaten, hung upside down by his ankles, and beaten with sticks, heavy PVC pipes, and wires. He said he was burned on his thighs and elbows with a heated wire plate and burned with cigarettes on his hands and feet. RS said his interrogators pushed his head in a bucket of water and forced a petrol-infused plastic bag on his head and tried to asphyxiate him. RS told his doctor he was forced to perform oral sex and raped anally by one prison guard every night. He said he was interrogated by the guard during the rape, and was raped continually for four months. RS said that the living conditions were extremely hard during detention; he and his fellow inmates had to use one corner of their room as a toilet and were provided food once a day. RS said he managed to secure his release from detention in 2009 after his family bribed officials in the CID. He said he was in Colombo later that year to apply for a visa to the UK when he was stopped by the police for an identity check. He was blindfolded, rearrested, and taken “WE WILL TEACH YOU A LESSON” 112
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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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Aside from their direct criminal re
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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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Human Rights Watch that he and othe
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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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IV. Domestic Response Post-War Barr
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LTTE conspiracy to defame and demon
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• Establish, maintain, and public
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Appendix: Cases of Rape and Other S
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Name: KM Gender: Male Age: 22 Date
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