Total of 61 civilians of all ages have surrendered to the JHRCn months of July and August fearing for their safety and their lives according to the civilian sources in Jaffna while 43 people have been violently killed while 27 were abducted or disappeared and 18 were missing without any traces in the month of August alone in the North and East (N&E) of Sri Lanka.

Like a revisiting ghost, rashes of mysterious abductions and killings have come to haunt Sri Lanka once more. Men and women are being snatched from their homes, sometimes after dark, sometimes in broad daylight.

Thousands of civilians including scores of aid workers and journalists unlawfully killed in Sri Lanka and their bodies dumped in wells, road sides and dead children hung from rafters. The ever escalating violence in the troubled nation, nightmare tales and gory pictures are again emerging from the island’s war-battered north and east of Sri Lanka, says an aid group.

The UN Human Rights Emergency Relief Coordinator, Sir John Holmes recently said, “Sri Lanka is among the most dangerous places on earth for humanitarian workers, and called on the government to probe civil war abuses and consider an international rights monitoring mission.”

In the context that domestic bodies have failed to ensure the security of places of religious worship as well as religious leaders, let alone civilian that they seek to protect and assist, AHRC urged that the Government of Sri Lanka favorably considers the assistance being offered by the international community, particularly in the form of a field based UN Human Rights Monitoring presence in Sri Lanka.

In the ever worsening violence and human rights abuses in Sri Lanka, over 5,400 people killed including 44 aid workers and 10 journalists, close to 500,000 people internally displaced (IDP) while over thousands people were abducted and hundreds are missing within past twenty one months.

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