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Name: SJ Gender: Female Age: 32 Date Detained: April 2012 Date Released: April 2012 Circumstances of detention: SJ was on her way home from work in Kilinochchi when a white van pulled up beside her. Two men in civilian clothes got off and asked her to accompany them for questioning. Account: I was taken to a room in a derelict building. Around three men in civilian clothes started questioning me. I came to know one of the men was a senior official as the others were talking respectfully to him. The men asked me to take my clothes off and took photographs of me naked. They told me they had all the information about me and my activities with the LTTE. They told me to confess about everything. I refused to confess as I thought they would kill me. I was beaten up and tortured continuously. On the second day, a man came to my room and raped me. I was raped by different men on at least three days. I can’t remember how many times. They would always touch my private parts after they raped me. They spoke in Sinhala but also spoke some broken Tamil. I signed a confession statement as I wanted the rapes to stop. While I was in detention, my family tried to lodge a complaint with the NHRC [National Human Rights Commission] but they refused to register a complaint. My family also approached some members of parliament. Nobody helped us. 109 SJ told Human Rights Watch that she managed to escape detention after her family bribed members of the military. At the time of the interview SJ was undergoing medical treatment abroad. 109 Human Rights Watch interview with SJ, October 13, 2012. 57 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | FEBRUARY 2013
Name: BL Gender: Male Age: 28 Date Detained: March 2012 Date Released: Cannot recall Circumstances of detention: In March 2012, BL was on his way back from Jaffna to Colombo when he was abducted by a group of armed men in civilian clothes who blindfolded him and pushed him into a van. BL said he was driven for over an hour and taken to a room where he was fingerprinted, photographed, and his details recorded. Account: I was stripped down to my underwear and tied to a chair. My interrogators started slapping and punching me. I continued to deny their charges that I was an LTTE member. They made me lie flat on a bench and started beating me with a baton. The torture grew worse and I was subsequently burned with cigarettes. I was raped by those who were interrogating me for three consecutive days. The rapes occurred at night and they would come drunk to my detention cell. Finally, I could not bear the torture anymore and signed a confession statement on the fourth day. My interrogators groped and pulled my genitals during the interrogation but the rapes happened at night. 110 BL’s medical records from his general practitioner notes that he has several scars on his body and suffers from anxiety and depression on account of his experience of torture in Sri Lanka. BL said he was released from detention after his father bribed authorities through an EPDP interlocutor. 110 Human Rights Watch interview with BL, May 13, 2012. “WE WILL TEACH YOU A LESSON” 58
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