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Sri Lanka rapped over `disappeared`
Thursday, 6 March 2008 - 10:35 PM SL Time
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Sri Lanka`s government is one of the world`s worst perpetrators of enforced disappearances, US-based pressure group Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.
An HRW report accuses security forces and pro-government militias of abducting and `disappearing` hundreds of people - mostly Tamils - since 2006.
Sri Lanka`s government says HRW has exaggerated the scale of the problem.
In a separate development, a team of foreign judicial experts has announced its withdrawal from the country.
HRW says many of the missing are young Tamil men targeted on suspicion of links to Tamil Tiger rebels.
But their conclusions have been flatly rejected by the Sri Lankan government.
Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona says there has been a `steady decline in disappearances over the last 12 months` because of new measures taken by the government.
`Unfortunately Human Rights Watch has tended to exaggerate the real situation,` Mr Kohona said.
He said the group`s `unfair` report was based on unsubstantiated claims and `anecdotal evidence`, while the government`s own investigations into disappearances were proceeding quickly.
Tens of thousands have died since separatist Tamil Tiger rebels began fighting the Sri Lankan government more than three decades ago.
HRW said several hundred cases of disappearances had been reported since 2006, when fighting between the Tamil Tiger rebels and the government intensified.
The rights group said the majority of cases `indicate the involvement of government security forces - army, navy or police`.
Full Story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7280050.stm
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GalleDukeRev1
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 6 Mar 2008 16:38:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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GOSL is getting blamed for all the kidnappings and killings of the LTTE.
Lies have run a mile while truth is still putting its boots on!!
Edited By - GalleDukeRev1 - 6 Mar 2008 16:39:45 G |
Nash12
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 6 Mar 2008 16:41:57 GMT Report for Abuse
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To continue from the above thread, .... and for the killing of MPs who preside in their own parliament.
Oh no, they don't do killing... it must be the work of some saboteurs of the Chintanaya... |
alwaysalion
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 6 Mar 2008 16:46:11 GMT Report for Abuse
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Don't forget the LTTE Pig! You guys are supporting him
and paying for his children's education too.
Hiliarious Aani! |
SatanKaBacha
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 6 Mar 2008 16:46:42 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sri Lanka rapped over 'disappeared'
Accusations buidling up against the Junta at an unprecedented level..! Good.. Good..!
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TrueFactor
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 6 Mar 2008 16:48:58 GMT Report for Abuse
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Full of BS.
We all know HRW is paid by LTTE....
VP is the defender of human rights...lol |
freedom1
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 6 Mar 2008 16:50:45 GMT Report for Abuse
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The rights group said the majority of cases 'indicate the involvement of government security forces - army, navy or police'
Sri Lanka is one of the most lawless countries in the world where a life doesn't mean much and where corruption, militias, terrorists and mafia rule almost everything. |
srimal111
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6 Mar 2008 16:52:03 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sri Lanka rapped over 'disappeared
Simple.
Stay out of trouble. No harm would come to you :)
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lankanlover99
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6 Mar 2008 16:52:55 GMT Report for Abuse
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| HRW is in fact the covert extension of the LTTE's human rights branch lol |
Randu097
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 6 Mar 2008 16:53:02 GMT Report for Abuse
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Oh.. yes. People disappears from SL.
But... no of asylum seekers from SL increases in Norway. |
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