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Atleast 202 soldiers belonging to the Senanigama army camp in Dehiaththakandiya have been admitted to the Mahiyangana and Dehiaththakandiya hospitals due to what appeared to be food poisoning, Police Media spokesman confirmed.

Torture in India
Torture is routine in every one of India's 25 states. Every day in policecells and military barracks throughout the land pain and indignity aredeliberately inflicted by paid agents of the state. On men, women and evenchildren. They are beaten senseless, given electric shocks or have their limbscrushed by heavy rollers. Sexual torture, including rape, is common. AmnestyInternationalThe law prohibits torture, but there is credible evidence that itis common throughout India. The authorities often use torture duringinterrogations. In other cases, they torture detainees to extort money andsometimes as summary punishment.

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On 17 June 1998, Amnesty International issued its annual report, covering events in Sri Lanka during 1997. Amnesty said:

'Torture and ill-treatment in army and police custody were widespread...Methods included near-suffocation with plastic bags filled with petrol beatings with wire and plastic pipes electric shocks and suspension by the thumbs or ankles... No prosecutions were initiated under the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Act..'

However, Sri Lanka's torture of Tamil prisoners in custody is not something new. A quick tour of the record will prove that during the past twenty years and more, torture has been carried out in a systematic, deliberate and sustained manner by the Sri Lanka authorities. And, notwithstanding earnest appeals by organisations such as Amnesty, 'business has gone on, very much as usual'.

The systematic and planned use of torture by Sri Lanka during these several years cannot be explained away as the misdemeanours of a few 'bad eggs' in the Sri Lanka security forces. Timothy J. Moore from the International Commission of Jurists was right when he concluded in 1983 that in Sri Lanka, it was 'the almost universal practice of the military authorities to physically assault and mistreat those persons who have been in their custody'. And, over the ensuing years, it is clear that practice has led to perfection.

The proven record shows that thousands of Tamil prisoners have been tortured with burning cigarettes by insertion of chilli powder in the nostrils, mouth and eyes and on the genitals with red ants being applied to sensitive parts of their bodies by being suspended upside down by the toes whilst their heads were placed in a bag with suffocating fumes of burning chillies with prolonged beatings especially on the soles of the feet while lying stretched out on a bench or while hanging by the knees from a pole by having pins driven under fingernails and toenails and in the heels by being deprived of food and sleep by beatings on the genitals and other parts of the body with sticks, batons and sand-filled plastic pipes by electric shocks by the insertion of iron rods in the anus and by mock or threatened executions.

Tigers have failed to demonstrate that they have the forces to protect those of us who have invested in Tamil Homeland

by allowing tigers to provide security for u.....:-)

This is what happenes when poor village boys dont get 5000 rs meal as happened to Mahinda in Saarc !

Can you inform Mahinda abt this too ?

Tigers have failed to demonstrate that they have the forces to protect those of us who have invested in Tamil Homeland

ATROCITIES BY TAMIL NADU POLICE AGAINST MEDICOS 06.09.08 (2 months ago) #1

Non-Service Medicos have been severely beaten up by the TamilNadu Police for the attempted road rocco against the biased judgement given by the court today at the venue of DME. Only 21 medicos who filed the case against the previous verdict were allowed to take Non-Clinical PG seats in the counseling. If the medicos are not uniting together to protest against this issue, the status of non-service medicos would be really pathetic in TamilNadu .

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