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Name: JT Gender: Male Age: 28 Date Detained: September 2007 Date Released: October 2007 Circumstances of detention: In mid-September 2007, JT said, he had escaped from the LTTE after having been conscripted from his home in Puthukudiyiruppu in the northeast four months earlier. JT told Human Rights Watch that he went to Puttalam on Sri Lanka’s west coast, where he stayed at his uncle’s house. Account: Around 4 p.m. officials in civilian clothes arrived at my uncle’s house. They did not say anything, but handcuffed me and threw me in the back of a van. I was kept face down in the back of the van but when I came out, I saw it was an army camp. I was beaten and questioned every day in the camp. After four or five days I was taken to Colombo for further investigation. The officials told me, “You are an important person so we have to take you to Colombo.” I don’t know where they took me in Colombo. I was questioned again in Colombo. They accused me of being an LTTE member and of having penetrated Puttalam to launch attacks against the army. I was forced to sign a paper which had something written in Sinhala. I was also taken to identify LTTE suspects in other camps. They forced me to undress during the questioning and torture. They beat me with sand-filled pipes and burned me with cigarettes. I was hung me upside down and beaten. They forced a petrol-infused plastic bag on my head and tried to asphyxiate me. I was raped in detention. I was bleeding for two weeks and could not go to the toilet for a long time. 180 JT’s medico legal report, on file with Human Rights Watch, notes the severe anal pain he suffers following his rapes in Sri Lanka and the incidence of scarring that matches his account of torture. JT told Human Rights Watch he secured his release from detention in October 2007 after his family bribed the authorities. 180 Human Rights Watch interview with JT, January 28, 2011. 135 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | FEBRUARY 2013
Name: DV Gender: Female Age: 37 Date arrested: February 2007 Date Released: April 2007 Circumstances of detention: In February 2007, a group of soldiers and men in civilian clothes took DV’s husband from their house in Mt. Lavinia. When DV lodged a complaint about the illegal detention at the Mt. Lavinia police station, the police provided no information on her husband’s whereabouts. A few days later, a similar group of officials— six or seven army personnel, including some men in civilian clothes—came to the house again, this time looking for DV. Account: The officials who came for me behaved indecently. They abused me and called me a “Tamil bitch” in Sinhala. They pushed me into a van. I was held face down in the van. They drove me for an hour, then stopped and took me out. I was taken to a small, dark room where they recorded my details. I later came to know that they took me to Panagoda army camp. They started questioning me. They asked me about my husband’s involvement with the LTTE. They beat me with sticks and wires. Always, the questions were followed by beating. They sexually harassed me during the questioning. They touched me indecently and told me I was beautiful. There were always two or three people who questioned me and tortured me. They showed me some photographs and asked me to identify the LTTE members. The officials who questioned me were in Sri Lankan army uniform. At night, I was left alone in the room. On the first night, two officials came to my room and dragged me to another room that looked like the duty officers room. There was a bed in the room. The two officials raped me one after the other on the floor. 181 DV’s medico legal report, on file with Human Rights Watch, notes that she suffers from severe posttraumatic stress disorder on account of her ill treatment and torture in Sri Lanka. DV told Human Rights Watch that her uncle managed to secure her release from detention after arranging payment of a bribe to a brigadier at the Panagoda army camp in April 2007. DV was released in April 2007 on “reporting conditions.” 182 181 Human Rights Watch interview with DV, January 10, 2012. 182 Conditions for release from custody involving regular visits to the police station. “WE WILL TEACH YOU A LESSON” 136
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H U M A N R I G H T S W A T C H “
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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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of women and girls. In its response
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damages. 43 The UN has reaffirmed t
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Violations: Denial of Basic Due Pro
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