Rape,Torture,Pain and Death continue to haunt the Tamils of Sri Lanka.
I have posted quite a few posts on the War Crimes of Sri Lanka nd have provvied some links towards the end of this post.
The Atrocities are not over even after the war is Over,
The Rajapakshe Government is flouting all international norms and is conducting the CHOGM Summit in Sri Lanka.
And a shameless Indian Government is likely to be represented by its Prime Minister!
Latest news is that Salman Khurshid,The External Affairs Minister is likely to attend the CHOGM Summit,
Either you attend out of conviction and moral values. you do not deputize.
It is not Man Mohan Singh who is attending or not attending,
It is a question of India‘ anguish.
Salman Khurshid does not represent India and Indian feelings and PM does?
Classic case of The Remedy Being worse than the Cure!
Who will bell the cat?
Story:
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As Commonwealth leaders prepare to meet at a summit in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, allegations of rape and torture by the Sri Lankan security forces have emerged, some of them occurring four years after the civil war ended.
“When the lady left and that man closed the door, I knew what was going to happen,” says Vasantha. “They raped me.”
One evening earlier this year, Vasantha says, she was going back to her home in northern Sri Lanka when a white van drew up and two men asked for her identity card.
She says she was thrown into the back of the vehicle and blindfolded.
Watch Our World: Sri Lanka’s Unfinished War on BBC World News on Saturday 9 November at 11:30 GMT and on Sunday 10 November at 17:30 GMT and 22:30 GMT or watch it later on the BBCiPlayer.
Vasantha says she realised the authorities had finally caught up with her, four years after the war and just as she was about to leave for Britain on a student visa.
Her story is one of a number given to the BBC, horrific accounts of torture carried out long after hostilities ended.
During the civil war, Vasantha had helped Tamil Tiger rebels pass messages and set up safe houses in the capital, but she says she never took part in the fighting or held a gun.
Like other women I have interviewed, Vasantha never saw the outside of the building where she was held or met another detainee, but she said she did hear female voices, screaming in Tamil.
She describes being photographed and fingerprinted and then kicked, beaten with batons and pipes, burned with hot wires and cigarettes, submerged in a barrel of water until she thought she would drown, suffocated by having a petrol-soaked plastic bag put over her head, before being repeatedly raped by men in army uniform.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24849699
Related:
http://ramanisblog.in/2013/03/29/rape-of-tamil-women-in-sri-lanka-photos/