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Name: CK Gender: Female Age: 38 Date Detained: Interrogated in her home in February 2011 Circumstances of detention: In February 2011, seven Sri Lankan army soldiers arrived at CK’s house in the town of Mullaithivu in northeastern Sri Lanka. CK told Human Rights Watch that soldiers forced her four children into the backroom and locked the door from outside. Account: A few soldiers came forward and pushed me. They started questioning me about my husband. They said, “We know your husband is LTTE. Tell us where he is now. Who does he work with now?” I said I didn’t know anything. My children were crying in the other room. One of the soldiers took his belt off and said “You are not listening.” He started beating me. Then one of them pulled off my clothes. I lost consciousness but when I came round, I knew I had been raped because I was bleeding heavily. I don’t know, but I think I was raped many times. I put on my clothes and opened the door so my children could come in. I cannot leave the country as I don’t have the money. If I complain, everybody will come to know. I will have no respect. It will be very dangerous for me and my family. 120 120 Human Rights Watch interview with CK, November 16, 2011. Medical documentation was not available in this case. 69 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | FEBRUARY 2013
Name: KI Gender: Female Age: 29 Date Detained: January 2011 Date Released: March 2011 Circumstances of detention: KI returned from the UK to Sri Lanka in January 2011. She told Human Rights Watch she was arrested by officials from the TID soon after her arrival and taken to an unknown detention facility for questioning. Account: KI worked as a teacher in northern Sri Lanka when she entered into a relationship with a young man who persuaded her to join the LTTE in 2002. KI underwent some training and joined the LTTE’s intelligence wing. KI’s boyfriend died during the final stages of the conflict in 2009 and her family persuaded her to leave to study in the UK in order to avoid arrest. In her medical interview, which Human Rights Watch obtained from her doctor with her consent, KI said she arrived in the UK in October 2009 and enrolled at the East Thames College. In early 2011, her mother suffered a heart attack and KI left the UK to visit her mother in Sri Lanka soon after. KI said she arrived at Colombo’s international airport on January 27, 2011, and was arrested by CID officials soon after arrival. She said she was asked to wait in a room and asked to hand them her jewelry, belongings and shoes. She was subsequently taken to an unknown detention facility where officials began to question her about her involvement with the LTTE. She said she was beaten, punched, and kicked. Officials grabbed her hair and bashed her head against the wall. The following day, KI said an LTTE member whom she was familiar with through previous contact was brought to her. The LTTE member asked her to confess everything. KI said she continued to deny her involvement in the LTTE. She was then burned with cigarettes on her back, breasts, and thighs. She was stripped and raped by three officials one after another. Throughout the torture, the officials demanded that she confess to being an LTTE member. They demanded to know the names of people she knew in the LTTE and the locations of other LTTE members. KI said she was released from detention in March 2011 after her aunt managed to bribe the authorities. 121 121 Medical personnel interview with KI, August 11, 2011; Contained in a medico legal report prepared for the UK courts in support of an asylum claim. “WE WILL TEACH YOU A LESSON” 70
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