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TH’s medico legal report, on file with Human Rights Watch, confirms that the physical evidence of scarring corroborates her account of torture. TH told Human Rights Watch she was released from detention in September 2008 after her brotherin-law organized payment of a bribe of two million rupees [US$1,555] to the CID. 123 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | FEBRUARY 2013
Name: DJ Gender: Female Age: 23 Date Detained: July 2008 Date Released: July 2008 Circumstances of detention: Around noon one day in July 2008, DJ was walking to her sewing class on the outskirts of Vavuniya town when she was approached by a group of uniformed and armed army and police personnel and two or three men in civilian clothes. DJ told Human Rights Watch that army officials asked to see her ID card, which revealed her original residence was Mullaithivu. DJ said that the army officer told her that she would need to accompany them for questioning. Account: I was pushed into an army vehicle and taken to Joseph Camp for interrogation. There were three officials in army uniform who told me I was with the LTTE and had come to spy in Vavuniya. I kept denying this, but they kept insisting. I was pushed around, but not beaten. I was then sent to a small, dark cell that had a squatting latrine in the corner. There was no water. The room was filled with insects and mosquitoes. On the second day, I was again questioned and beaten in the office. I lost consciousness due to the beating and was dragged back into my cell. The soldiers pushed some dry bread and dirty water through a low hatch in the door. On the third day, a uniformed soldier with a rifle came into the cell. He dragged me to a different room that had a table on the side and three chairs for the interrogators. There were pipes, metal rods, and some other instruments on the table. There were bloodstains and other stains on the floor and on the walls of the room. Three men in uniform and one in civilian clothes started questioning me. I kept denying any involvement with the LTTE. The men called two women in uniform and the women came and tied my arms to the bars of a small window that was quite high. I was facing the interrogators and my arms were tied, stretched over my head. The two uniformed women left the room. The uniformed men started questioning me again. The man in civilian clothes kicked me on the knees with his boots and I almost fainted with the pain. A military officer burned me with a cigarette on my arms while the others questioned me. The armed military officer then tore off the front of my dress and started to fondle and grasp my breasts, and grab between my legs and “WE WILL TEACH YOU A LESSON” 124
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Map of Sri Lanka
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Available information indicates tha
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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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damages. 43 The UN has reaffirmed t
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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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