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away in a van. He said he was thrown into a room where he was fingerprinted and photographed. RS said he was once again questioned about his relationship with R. and the latter’s whereabouts. He was burned with cigarettes, hung upside down, kicked and beaten, including on the soles of his feet. He said his interrogator put a gun in his mouth threatened to kill him. His family once again secured his release after nearly 40 days by bribing officials. 161 161 Medical personnel interview with RS, February 6, 2012; Contained in a medico legal report prepared for the UK courts in support of an asylum claim. 113 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | FEBRUARY 2013
Name: KN Gender: Female Age: 30 Date Detained: April 2009 Date Released: cannot recall Circumstances of detention: KN lived with her husband and child in Kodikaman, Jaffna, when fighting between the Sri Lankan army and LTTE intensified. KN told Human Rights Watch that her husband, a farmer, was conscripted by the LTTE in March 2009 to dig trenches and provide other support. She said she joined her fleeing neighbors with her young child in April 2009, and reached Iranaippalai in the northeast where she “surrendered” to the Sri Lankan army. Account: We were taken to Omanthai on April 21, 2009. All of us were stripped naked. The soldiers asked all the women and men to bend over and laughed when we did. They groped us and felt our breasts. On April 22, a bus took us to Arunachalam camp at Chettikulam Vavuniya. I was questioned on numerous occasions at the camp and before being taken to the camp. My husband has been missing since April 2009. The soldiers knew I was without my husband. They asked me in each inquiry. I shared the tent with six other young women. Each of us was invited for an inquiry. The officials who conducted the inquiry wore military uniforms. The inquiry happened only at nighttime. The officials who interrogated me took turns to rape me. They took my photographs and fingerprints. They asked about my husband’s whereabouts and how he supported the LTTE. I told them I didn’t know anything. They slapped me and then said they would fix me. They raped me by turn. There were four or five people. I went back to my tent after they finished. They would call different girls from the tent and I was called at least six times. They did not ask me to sign a confession document. 162 KN managed to secure her release from the camp after bribing EPDP members and Sri Lankan security forces. She made her way to Germany with her son in January 2011. 162 Human Rights Watch interview with KN, November 18, 2011. Medical records were not available in this case. “WE WILL TEACH YOU A LESSON” 114
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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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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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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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LTTE conspiracy to defame and demon
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• Establish, maintain, and public
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