Thursday, May 21, 2009

Sri Lanka authorities on revenge rampage in Tamil refugee camps; women being murdered, children abducted...

Reports are emerging from inside Sri Lanka's internment camps of brutal revenge being taken against Tamil Tiger fighters and the abduction of young children by paramilitary groups.

Detainees in one of the camps told the Guardian that a number of female Tamil Tigers have been murdered after giving themselves up to the authorities.

The bodies of 11 young women were allegedly found with their throats slashed outside the Menic Farm camp near the town of Vavuniya, according to people being held behind the razor wire perimeter. The women's short haircuts are understood to have made them easily identifiable as former members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The bodies are said to have been discovered in the last two weeks, but there is no way of confirming the allegations because access to the camps is heavily restricted. More...

See also:

  1. Sri Lanka cries "victory" as women are being raped and children are disappearing in Tamil refugee camps...
  2. Tamil children being abducted from refugee camps in Sri Lanka...
  3. Sri Lanka blocks UN aid to thousands of Tamil refugees; this is victory?

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