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Sri Lanka’s torture of Tamils persists despite end of war, says charity
http://atimes.com/2015/08/sri-lankas-torture-of-tamils-persists-despite-end-of-war-charity/
An ethnic Tamil survivor of alleged torture at the hands of Sri Lankan security forces
Sri Lanka’s torture of Tamils persists despite end of war, says charity
By AT Editor on August 13, 2015
(From Reuters)
The torture of minority Tamils in Sri Lanka by the police and military remains a major problem six years after the end of the civil war with victims beaten, burned and sexually abused, a UK-based charity providing medical care to survivors said.
In a report released Thursday, Freedom from Torture said that in 2014, for the third year in a row, Sri Lanka was the top country of origin of those the charity helped.
The report, published ahead of elections next week in which wartime president Mahinda Rajapaksa hopes to reclaim power, was based on medical evidence relating to 148 Sri Lankan torture survivors, 94 percent of them Tamils.
Eight months after he was ousted as president, Rajapaksa is challenging the reformist coalition that replaced his government and that enjoys the broad support of Sri Lanka’s Tamil and Muslim minorities
