Sri Lankan State Refuses To Own Up To Abductions & Torture Of Opponents
Abduction Island: The small island nation of Sri Lanka has one of the highest numbers of unsolved disappearances in the world. Will a new investigation agency help victims of abduction and their families get justice?
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"If someone is dead, you have their body. You can deal with the emotions and get over their death. If a person is abducted, it’s one of the worst crimes out there", says Sandya Eknaligoda. Her husband Prageeth Eknaligoda was a left-wing political cartoonist who disappeared under suspicious circumstances in 2010, following his criticism of the incumbent President Rajapaksa. He is one of Sri Lanka's 60,000 recorded disappearances in the last thirty years, a figure second only to that of Iraq. "Eknaligoda's case is definitely a murder. To my conscience, I think he was murdered", says former army chief general Sarath Fonseka. Now a minister in the government which ousted Rajapaksa's regime in 2015, Fonseka alleges that white van abductions and torture were routinely conducted to silence critics during the civil war. Yet while hundreds of Tamil families are no closer to knowing the whereabouts of relatives affiliated with the Tamil Tigers, there have been fresh disappearances. The new Office of Missing Persons state that their remit is not to reunite. "It is to find out what happened to a person. It is to trace people", says commissioner Saliya Pieris.
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Damn. Didn’t know it was like this in Sri Lanka. Terrible!
its been a decade gone but still no Justice served for Tamils
I don't know what to say, but it really hurts to see the emotion, sadness and grief on their faces.
THIS IS REALLY MESSED UP AND WRONG!
‘This is not a banana state’ The Sri Lankan government got aid and strategic assistance from China during the war. The Sri Lankan’s now are on the permanent payroll of the Chinese, iWhat do you expect from people who get human rights lessons from the Chinese?
@davidcampo2026
6 жыл бұрын
Delphinium Flower obviously you are not aware of the facts about this particular war. China has played a pivotal role in the war and assisted the Singhalese government to win a war that they were incapable of doing for over 25 years. The strategic, military assistance and arms provided in the forms of loans have now come to bite the them, as China has started to take over chunks of state owned asset. Whilst many countries sell arms, not many go to the length of the Chinese. Incompetent government and incapable people of SL are fodder for The Chinese.
Isn't it the sci-fi author Arthur Clarke who moved to Sri Lanka because of its natural beauty?
@maheshwillscrewu
6 жыл бұрын
yes
Smthg should be done about this. It's terrifying!
btw you are talking to the murder . ekneligoda was killed by general sarath fonseka's orders. every sri lankan knows this but you
This is so terrible!
As usual, excellent report from AlJazeera
Tamil genocide since 1930s no difference just now they have a clear path with no one stopping them or protecting the tamils, tamils love the ltte and sinhalese goverment commited a genocide and the world watched
This is what they should do to America's progressive democrats.