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who raped me first warned me not to tell anybody about this. They told me they would kill my husband. I started bleeding very heavily. I think I was pregnant prior to the rape and miscarried. My mother brought my daughter to the police station, but they didn’t let me meet them. The third day after I was arrested, my husband returned from India. He came to the police station and surrendered. The police then released me but locked up my husband. I cried and begged them to give me an arrest receipt [official acknowledgement of arrest] for my husband. They gave me a receipt. 135 MT told Human Rights Watch she secured her husband’s release from detention a month after his arrest after she paid Rs 10 lakhs [US$7,800] as a bribe to an EPDP member. 135 Human Rights Watch interview with MT, December 4, 2011. Medical records were not available in this case. 85 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | FEBRUARY 2013
Name: YN Gender: Male Age: 46 Date Abducted: January 2010 Date Released: February 2010 Circumstances of detention: YN had been deported from the UK to Sri Lanka in December 2005 after he exhausted his asylum claims. He told Human Rights Watch he made another attempt at fleeing Sri Lanka after he was detained by the police in 2007. He was deported to Sri Lanka in January 2010 where he was taken into custody. Account: I was picked up by CID officials as soon as I cleared immigration at Colombo’s international airport. I was taken to the fourth floor of CID headquarters where I was detained for two or three days before being transferred to the Joseph Camp in Vavuniya. I was kept handcuffed in a single cell in Colombo. I was tortured in Vavuniya in the room where I was questioned. During questioning, I was beaten with batons and metal rods. The officials poured kerosene on the floor and threatened to set it alight. In another instance, they held a gun to my head and threatened to pull the trigger. I was hung upside down and beaten with truncheons and hot metal rods. I was stripped naked in both detention sites. I was sexually abused by being forced to have oral sex on two or three occasions when I was detained in Vavuniya. 136 YN’s medico legal report, on file with Human Rights Watch, notes “at least 13 scars on his body on account of cigarette burns in addition to scars due to beatings by truncheon and a chain. The report notes that he has suffered “marked physical damage which supports his account of torture.” YN told Human Rights Watch he did not sign a confession statement, but managed to escape detention after his uncle bribed army personnel in Vavuniya. 136 Human Rights Watch interview with YN, Febuary 5, 2012. “WE WILL TEACH YOU A LESSON” 86
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Map of Sri Lanka
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surveillance of civil society group
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Methodology From November 2011 to O
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I. Background The 26-year-long arme
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The Sri Lankan government declared
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of women and girls. In its response
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damages. 43 The UN has reaffirmed t
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