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Name: TT Gender: Female Age: 27 Date Detained: January 2011 Date Released: Cannot recall Circumstances of detention: During the early morning one day in early January 2011, a group of CID and uniformed military personnel came to TT’s home in Kilinochchi. TT told Human Rights Watch she was blindfolded, handcuffed, and taken to an unknown detention site. Account: The room where I was detained had blood stains and was very dirty. The military personnel started questioning me on the second day. They took all my details. I was fingerprinted and photographed. The officials forced me to take all my clothes off. I was tortured severely. I was beaten up with several instruments and burned with cigarettes. The officials who questioned me behaved indecently with me. They groped at my breasts during questioning. I was raped at night in my cell. Sometimes two and sometimes three men came into my room at night. Some of them were uniformed. They said abusive words to me in Tamil and Sinhala. I tried to defend myself but I think they raped me at least six times. Each time when I resisted, they threatened to kill me. The officials and guards did not let me sleep. They threw water at me or shouted very loudly through the night. They constantly accused me of being an LTTE member during questioning. 122 TT’s medico legal report, on file with Human Rights Watch notes: “she is a young woman who describes a twenty day history of extreme sexual violence and torture in detention in Sri Lanka, with multiple physical scars and psychological sequelae.” The report points to the various burn marks on her body as being “typical of burns made with a cigarette.” TT told Human Rights Watch she was detained for around 22 days and made to sign a confession in Sinhala. She said she was unofficially released from detention after her uncle bribed officials in the CID. 122 Human Rights Watch interview with TT, January 8, 2012. 71 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | FEBRUARY 2013
Name: YS Gender: Female Age: 27 Date Detained: December 2010 Date Released: January 2011 Circumstances of detention: In mid-December 2010, YS was arrested by a joint team of the CID and police during a search and seizure operation at a motel in Walwatte, Colombo, where she was staying. YS told Human Rights Watch she was pushed into a police van and taken to a CID camp in Colombo. Account: I worked with the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) [an LTTE-controlled humanitarian organization] for four years and was forcibly recruited by the LTTE in 2009. I was scared that the security forces would arrest me, so I went to Colombo from Vavuniya to apply for a student visa to the UK. I was detained in a small cell in the CID camp for nearly 15 days. The CID officials who interrogated me would take me out of the cell for questioning. They asked me about my role with the LTTE. I told them that I wasn’t a member. They then started beating and torturing me. I was burned with cigarettes all over my chest; I was beaten with hot metal wires on my thighs and my buttocks. During the interrogation, the officials would pull me by the hair and drag me around the room. I was raped repeatedly by my interrogators. I cannot talk about my rape. I want to forget about my rape. My life has been ruined. The officials forced me to sign confession sheets of paper written in Sinhala. They asked me to identify various people as being LTTE operatives. I did not know these people, but said they were LTTE as I wanted them to stop the torture. 123 YSs medico legal report, on file at Human Rights Watch, notes that “the appearance of scars indicates that the insult was caused by heated metal burning on the skin.” The report also notes her distress and despair on talking about the rapes she suffered. YS told Human Rights Watch she was released from detention after her father managed to bribe the authorities. She fled Sri Lanka using the services of a human-smuggling agent. After her departure from Sri Lanka, YS’s father was arrested by the army and detained in an army camp in Vavuniya before being released on condition that he report to the camp on a weekly basis. 123 Human Rights Watch interview with YS, January 8, 2012. “WE WILL TEACH YOU A LESSON” 72
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