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FEBRUARY 2013 ISBN: 1-56432-993-3 “We Will Teach You a Lesson” Sexual Violence against Tamils by Sri Lankan Security Forces Map of Sri Lanka ................................................................................................................................ i Summary ........................................................................................................................................... 1 Key Recommendations...................................................................................................................... 9 Methodology ................................................................................................................................... 10 I. Background .................................................................................................................................. 12 The Armed Conflict ................................................................................................................. 12 Internal Displacement and Detention Camps ........................................................................... 14 Allegations of War Crimes ....................................................................................................... 15 Decades of Sexual Violence by <strong>the</strong> Security Forces .................................................................. 17 II. Legal Framework ..........................................................................................................................23 Sri Lanka’s Obligations under International Law ...................................................................... 23 Sri Lankan National Law ........................................................................................................ 26 III. Findings ..................................................................................................................................... 29 Perpetrators .......................................................................................................................... 29 Places of Detention................................................................................................................. 30 Interrogation Practices ............................................................................................................ 32 Victims ................................................................................................................................... 34 Post-War Developments .......................................................................................................... 36 Violations: Denial of Basic Due Process .................................................................................. 38 Violations: Torture, Rape, and Sexual Violence ....................................................................... 39 IV. Domestic Response..................................................................................................................... 42 Post-War Barriers to Redress ................................................................................................... 42 Continuing Impunity and Military Abuses ................................................................................ 43 V. Recommendations ....................................................................................................................... 47 Appendix: Cases of Rape and O<strong>the</strong>r Sexual Violence by Sri Lankan Security Forces, 2006-2012 ....................................................................................................................................... 50 Acknowledgments ......................................................................................................................... 139
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Page 8 and 9: Summary The police officials accuse
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V. Recommendations To the Governmen
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international human rights and huma
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Name: JH (all initials are pseudony
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Name: TJ Gender: Male Age: 19 Date
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The officials would take me out for
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I was given a rusty bucket of water
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I stayed in a bloodstained and dirt
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who raped me first warned me not to
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as they were conducted in Sinhala.
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away in a van. He said he was throw
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TH’s medico legal report, on file
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genitals. He also punched me on the
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There were other people detained wi
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