COI Report March 2012 - UK Border Agency - Home Office
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7 MARCH <strong>2012</strong> SRI LANKA<br />
15 February Amnesty International (AI) launched an urgent action related to ―a Tamil<br />
businessman who brought a case against Sri Lankan police for torture, unlawful<br />
arrest and detention‖ and who ―was abducted on 11 February at his home in<br />
Colombo, Sri Lanka, by armed men. He was due to appear in court on 13<br />
February.‖ AI added that ―Ramasamy Prabaharan was previously detained, on<br />
suspicion of being a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in<br />
2009. He was detained for 28 months and suffered extensive torture before<br />
being released in September 2011 due to lack of evidence. Ramasamy<br />
Prabaharan is currently pursuing legal redress for torture inflicted on him while<br />
in state custody. At the time of the abduction, Ramasamy Prabaharan had filed<br />
a fundamental rights application with the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka…‖<br />
Amnesty International<br />
Sri Lanka: Man abducted days before court hearing: Ramasamy Prabaharan,<br />
15 February <strong>2012</strong><br />
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA37/002/<strong>2012</strong>/en<br />
Date accessed 25 February <strong>2012</strong><br />
9 February The Government announced that another group of 40 rehabilitated ex-LTTE<br />
cadres had been handed over to their families. According to the Department of<br />
Rehabilitation 10, 490 ex-LTTE cadres have been ―rehabilitated and<br />
reintegrated into society‖ so far, leaving just over 970 ex-cadres to be<br />
reintegrated.<br />
Official website of the Government of Sri Lanka<br />
More ex-cadres reintegrated, 9 February <strong>2012</strong><br />
http://www.priu.gov.lk/news_update/Current_Affairs/ca<strong>2012</strong>02/<strong>2012</strong>0209more_<br />
ex_cadres_reintegrated.htm<br />
Date accessed 9 February <strong>2012</strong><br />
6 February The Mine Action Project of the UN Development Programme in Sri Lanka said<br />
landmine clearance in conflict-affected north could take more than a decade<br />
due to a lack of resources and the difficult nature of the work. According to data<br />
from the National Mine Action Centre, approximately 126 sq km of land<br />
remained to be cleared at the end of 2011. The largest remaining area was in<br />
Mannar District, followed by Mullaitivu, Kilinochchi, Vavuniya and Jaffna.<br />
Irin<br />
Sri Lanka: Mine clearance could take 10 years or more, 6 February <strong>2012</strong><br />
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=94798<br />
Date accessed 7 February <strong>2012</strong><br />
USEFUL NEWS SOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION<br />
A list of news sources with Weblinks is provided below, which may be useful if additional up to<br />
date information is required to supplement that provided in this report.<br />
AlertNet (Thomson Reuters) http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/asia-and-pacific/sri-lanka<br />
Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/sri-lanka<br />
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)<br />
The main text of this <strong>COI</strong> <strong>Report</strong> contains the most up to date publicly available information as at 3 February <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Further brief information on recent events and reports has been provided in the Latest News section<br />
to 2 <strong>March</strong> <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
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