“The actual incidence of rape and sexual violence committed by police and security forces is certainly far higher than that which is reported.
Violence Against Women in Sri Lanka – Report by World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), November 2002 Despite the passage of considerable time, the Sri Lankan justice system has failed to prosecute or even indict the men accused of raping and torturing the two Tamil women…” Both women were stripped and attacked by members of the Counter Subversive Unit (CSU). It is almost exactly two years since the rape and torture of Ms Sivamani Weerakon and Wijikala Nanthakumar in Sri Lankan military custody. “There is a vast distance between the policy and practice of women’s rights in Sri Lanka. The empty rhetoric of women’s rights – Vidya Cumaraswamy, Tamil Guardian, 23 April 2003 She was then allegedly raped by 12 police officers while in custody of CID…” At about midnight, she was put alone in a cell, where it is alleged that officers from the Methirigirya police station and the Polonaruva CID threatened to shoot her with a gun, put chili powder all over her body, suspended her from the ceiling, slapped her repeatedly, kicked her back, beat her with a rope, and burnt her all over with cigarettes. She was arrested on 24 November 2001 by four male police officers from the Methirigirya police station on the basis of being a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and was reportedly taken to the office of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Polonaruwa. (f), aged 22, held in detention in Batticaloa since 23 July 2002. “.On 24 September 2003, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint communication with the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture regarding the case of S.R. Report of Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women – Yakin Etturk,UN Commission on Human Rights, 60th Sessions 3 March 2004 NESOHR is ready to share this information with any leading international human rights organization that is willing to join us in taking up this case of the rape and murder of Tharshini…” more NESOHR has made the decision to withhold the identity of the relatives and neighbours from this report because their safety may be compromised if these are revealed. “The description given below of Tharshini’s disappearance on 16th December 2005 and the discovery of her body in an abandoned village well is put together from statements made by Tharshini’s relatives and neighbours to one of NESOHR’s committee members. Rape and murder of Ilaiyathamby Tharshini, 18 December 2005 Later she merely sobbed and whimpered…She was apparently hacked to death and thrown into the bushes.” more Premini was heard to shout and cry at the start. it was a horrible gang rape with TMVP (Sri Lanka Para Military) cadres taking turns to sexually assault her….
The dusky woman with attractive features and a slight squint was taken to another camp and raped. Sri Lanka Paramilitaries abduct Tamil staff members of Tamils Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) in Welikande/Batticaloa, 30 January 2006 … Ambalavanar Punithavathy, Thanuskodi Premini, Ilaiyathamby Tharshini, Thambipillai Thanalakshmi, Velu Arshadevi – Mahendiran Nageswari – Vijayaratnam Subashini, Thangiah Vijayalalitha, Sinnathamby Sivamany, Yogalingam Vijitha – Ehamparam Wijikala, Sathasivam Rathykala, Sarathambal, Ida Carmelitta, Koneswary, Velan Rasamma, Velan Vasantha, Rajani Velauthapillai, Selvarajah Renuka, Krishanthi Kumaraswamy, Lakshmi Pillai & hundreds of others… The real number is inevitably higher since many cases are unreported. Every two months a Tamil woman is gang-raped and murdered by the Sri Lankan security forces.” Statement by NGO, Women Against Rape, at United Nations Commission on Human Rights “…On average, a Tamil woman is raped by members of the Sri Lankan security forces every two weeks. “The Sri Lankan security forces are using systematic rape and murder of Tamil women to subjugate the Tamil population… Impunity continues to reign as rape is used as a weapon of war in Sri Lanka.” Asian Human Rights Commission “Sri Lankan soldiers have raped both women and young girls on a massive scale, and often with impunity, since reporting often leads to reprisals against the victims and their families.” World Organisation against Torture
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