Grand scale murder, rape of screened civilians feared, TNA MP alerts
Around 190 males were murdered and 130 females were taken for sexual abuse among the thousands of civilians so far fled and screened by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA), accused Tamil National Alliance MP S. Gajendran Saturday, citing information he received from the inmates of internment camps and from his contacts in Vavuniyaa.
The sources informed him that murdered were secretly buried in Anuradhapura. “Unless there is no immediate international supervision and international monitors, situation turning into another Yugoslavia cannot be prevented,” the MP said.
The separation of young men and women ‘wanted’ by the SLA reportedly takes place during the screening process at the so-called ‘IDP rescue centres’ in the war zone, entirely manned by military personnel.
In mid-90′s hundreds of civilians who got into the hands of the SLA in Jaffna were missing. Mass graves of the massacred became known later in a place at Chemma’ni in the Jaffna peninsula. Several instances of rape and murder were proven, whilst the vast majority were not investigated. Those convicted were later released.
The MP expressed fear that a worse situation is faced today.
There are news agencies and websites who claim that the civilians interviewed in the camps accused the LTTE for firing on them and preventing them fleeing. How far these news agencies can expect the civilians living under such terrified conditions to tell the truth other than what is wanted by those who have detained them, asked the MP.
Meanwhile, unconfirmed reports received from Vanni allege a person directing the war without uniform giving an open licence to the SLA to every form of atrocity, according to sources within SLA, who spoke about it.
So Gajendran has access to the IDP camps? This is contrary to what the LTTE and all their stooges are claiming by saying that no one has access to the IDP’s. Only in Sri lanka would you find such a situation where the government feeds, clothes and supports terrorist such as the TNA that supports terrorism and tarnishes the image of sri lanka by communicating false propoganda. So how can anyone say that there is no democracy in Sri lanka?
Mr. Gupta,
how do you know that is not happening? what right do you have to accuse Mr.Gajendran of spreading false propaganda? It is a wide spread truth that everyone knows its happening, just because its not published by the media (which is under the control of the Sri Lankan government) you can’t deny it. Maybe if you had your own sisters and mother stuck in a situation like that, then you wouldn’t be sitting and commenting like this. Go fix up your own country first.
i applaud you on the impartiality and researched factuality of your article.
I Salute you Mr Sandeep Gupta ,for saying what all of us want to say.