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There were other people detained with me. They knew what happened when S. called us out. Everybody knew that when he takes someone out of the cell, he rapes them. 171 PR told Human Rights Watch he was in detention for over a month. He said he was released after he begged S. for help. According to PR, S. offered to organize his release from detention for a bribe. S. advised PR’s family to file a complaint about his arrest with the NHRC, which would prompt him to have PR moved to New Magazine prison in Welikanda, a town in northern Sri Lanka, from which he could be released through the courts. PR said he was released from prison in September 2008 after his mother arranged to pay 11 lakhs Rs [US$8,500] to Colombo Crime Division officials. PR said he was arrested for a second time in March 2009 at Colombo’s international airport when he was trying to leave the country. PR said his parents contacted S. again after his second arrest, and they were told not to complain to any organization including the ICRC and NHRC. PR was released from his second detention following another bribe payment in April 2009. PR’s psychiatric report prepared in support of his asylum application, on file with Human Rights Watch, confirms that he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder due to ill treatment suffered in Sri Lanka. 171 Human Rights Watch interview with PR, January 28, 2012. 127 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | FEBRUARY 2013
Name: MJ Gender: Female Age: 32 Date Detained: May 2008 Date Released: July 2008 Circumstances of detention: One evening in May 2008, MJ was in her house in Vavuniya when CID officials and members of PLOTE arrived and asked for her by name. MJ told Human Rights Watch she had recently moved from Kilinochchi to Vavuniya and CID officials starting accusing her of doing so in order to spy on the army. MJ said that the CID officials took her to Anuradhapura in a van. Account: I was kept in a detention site, but I don’t know where I was. They started interrogating me and took all my details. They photographed me and took my fingerprints and asked me to sign a form written in Sinhala. They accused me of being an LTTE spy. They said I had come to plant a bomb in Vavuniya and spy on the army. Then they started torturing me. It was a group of about six people. They told me they were from the CID and PLOTE. They also said that they had all the information on me and my activities. They knew that my sister was with the LTTE. I could hear the screams of other people who were being tortured in the same building. I was burned all over my body with cigarettes. At night, one of the persons who said he was from PLOTE came to my room and raped me. I was raped on three occasions by the same person. I became pregnant as a result of these rapes. My daughter was born in March 2009. 172 MJ’s medico legal report, on file with Human Rights Watch, notes the presence of 20 scars on her body that confirm her account of torture in Sri Lanka. MJ was detained in the camp for two months until July 2008. She told Human Rights Watch that an agent secured her release from detention after arranging to pay 10 lakhs Rs [US$ 7,750] as a bribe to the CID. 172 Human Rights Watch interview with MJ, December 28, 2011. “WE WILL TEACH YOU A LESSON” 128
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Map of Sri Lanka
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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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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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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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