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The officials would take me out for questioning at night. They would take out the other detainees in my cell too. I started working with the [Tamil] paramilitary groups that openly visited the camp. They would take me outside to identify others who had been involved with the LTTE. The people in the paramilitary groups knew how the officials were treating us. It was common knowledge that we were raped. The paramilitary members helped me escape from the camp on in early July 2010. I arrived in Colombo in a van and stayed at my uncle’s house. 116 MB’s medical notes from his medical practitioner, on file with Human Rights Watch, show that he is currently under treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. MB said he remained in Colombo until he decided to apply for a UK visa and was detained again. He was released from detention following payment of a bribe in June 2011. 116 Human Rights Watch interview with MB, December 30, 2011. 65 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | FEBRUARY 2013
Name: JV Gender: Male Age: 28 Date Detained: April 2011 Date Released: Cannot recall Circumstances of detention: JV, a resident of Trincomalee, had a cousin who worked in the media wing of the LTTE. In 2007, JV’s cousin asked him to carry some documents to Chennai when he was on a pilgrimage to India. JV’s cousin asked him to carry papers again in January 2008, January 2009, and September 2009. JV’s family sent him to the UK to study in 2010. However, his mother fell ill and had to be hospitalized in Colombo, forcing him to return to Sri Lanka in April 2011. In his medical interview, JV said the CID took him aside for questioning soon after his arrival in Colombo from the UK. Account: JV said the CID accused him of participating in anti-government demonstrations in London. He denied the charge and was released. The following day CID officials came to the place he was staying in Colombo and arrested him. They told him they had proof of his involvement with the LTTE and photographs of him with Seeman [Indian Tamil activist], founder of the Naam Tamilar Iyakkam in India. JV confessed to taking papers to India, but denied involvement in any activities with the LTTE. His medical records, made available to Human Rights Watch with his permission, include transcripts in which JV describes various forms of torture. He told doctors he was hung by his wrists with his feet above the floor while he was interrogated, and beaten all over with batons. He said his interrogators deliberately beat him in areas where his skin broke because of the beating. He was returned to a small and dark cell after hours of beating and rarely given food and drink. JV said he was anally raped several times by interrogating officers during questioning. After about eight days he was taken to a court where he could not understand the proceedings as they were conducted in Sinhala. He was released at the end of the proceedings and taken to hospital where the worst wounds were sutured and others dressed. During his medical interview he revealed that he later learned that his father and uncle bribed officials in the CID to secure his release. 117 117 Medical personnel interview with JV, January 30, 2012, contained in a medico legal report prepared for the UK courts in support of an asylum claim. “WE WILL TEACH YOU A LESSON” 66
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