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Sri Lanka Army rapes more Tamil women behind barbed wire camps.

by Tamiya | November 25, 2009 at 02:48 pm

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women is followed today, November 25, 2009.

Rape and threats against young girls are wide spread around the world, specially in war torn areas where impunity is the norm.

Sri Lankan security forces are known to use rape and violence against Tamil women for decades. Now, there are over thousands of Tamil women are restrained under the same Sri Lankan security forces without any media presence or IC monitoring. The war was claimed to be over 6 months ago, however the Sri Lankan government still keeps the Tamil IDPs camps under high restrictions.

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) intelligence officers operating in the internment camps of Vanni have been allegedly involved in several rape cases during the past months. At least three cases of young victims, aged 14, 15 and 16, appeared in front of Vavuniyaa District Judge in October. SLA soldiers have also raped a 14-year-old mentally retarded Tamil girl inside the Vavuniyaa hospital.

Abuses inside these "concentration" standard camps take many forms.

In the month of July, injured Tamil girls admitted in the Padawiya hospital were taken for naked open-air bath by Sinhala nurses using hose pipes to the amusement of Sinhala soldiers watching it, according to an eyewitness.

While a humanitarian worker as well as government supported Tamils are also unleashing violence against the Tamil women IDPs in these camps using media absence and independent monitoring of situations in the camps.

Reports have also surfaced from several sources that an influential humanitarian worker attached to a global body has been making use of women, who have been struggling to find out the plight of their husbands detained by the SLA inside undeclared detention centres.

"I was shocked to learn that there were also Tamils involved in rape cases with the support of the SLA intelligence personnel," an activist documenting the evidences told TamilNet on Monday. "We have three cases registered on this 'influential' international worker".

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lalith

at 16:58 on November 25th, 2009

Tamilnet again?

Tamiya

at 23:47 on November 25th, 2009

May be you will find the report from US State Department on the Sri Lanka's current situation more credible and informative:

With the conflict now over, more than 280,000 Sri Lankans who fled their homes in the conflict zone during or in the aftermath of the conflict are internally displaced persons (IDPs). The vast majority are still in IDP camps and are denied the freedom to leave those camps (Appendix B, photo 1). In statements, the GSL has justified the continual denial of IDPs’ freedom of movement as necessary while the government screens for LTTE combatants. The GSL has not allowed international organizations or journalists to have unrestricted access to the IDP camps, which has made it difficult to have an accurate picture of events and conditions. Some IDPs have reported that they have been unable to confirm the whereabouts of injured persons who were evacuated from the battleground and taken into custody by GSL forces.