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Survivors' well-founded fear of speaking out about torture in Sri Lanka is just one of the reasons that little information on the practice has been released.
(SALEM) - Freedom from Torture in the UK, one of the world's leading anti-human torture groups, published a shocking report this month with new evidence of continuing torture in Sri Lanka.
It's bad news and tragically, demonstrates that the practice of illegal human torture is continuing long after the end of the civil war in May 2009.
The torture methods described by surviving victims are enough to make your skin crawl. Americans have little to nothing to say as their own country has embraced the medieval concept of human torture, which morally, sends us centuries back in time.
The United States migrated from being a country that abhorred such behavior, to become one under Republican leadership that gladly and happily embraces the idea.
None of this helps the people of Sri Lanka. In fact, it was the United States President G.W. Bush who made arrangements to block the leadership of the Tamil population from advocating for itself in world politics. All it takes is a 'terrorist' designation and all political negotiating power flew out the window.
Bush's decision set the stage for Rajapaksa's Genocide, so it isn't surprising that gutless coward-like torture endorsing politicians in the USA remain tight lipped. They do know what happened however.
Up to 160k people remain missing from the Tamil Genocide of 2009 and the resulting Diaspora. Official counts of the number of dead come in generally around 40k, but four times that number of people were never seen again.
The SLA (Sri Lanka Army) burned and destroyed records, in an apparent attempt to squash evidence. It only partly worked.
Fear, Genocide and Torture in Sri Lanka - Salem-News.Com
The research performed by Freedom from Torture ...shows that torture is perpetrated by officials within both the military and the police and that people within the Tamil population who are perceived by the authorities as having links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) remain at risk of being detained and tortured.
(SALEM) - Freedom from Torture in the UK, one of the world's leading anti-human torture groups, published a shocking report this month with new evidence of continuing torture in Sri Lanka.
It's bad news and tragically, demonstrates that the practice of illegal human torture is continuing long after the end of the civil war in May 2009.
The torture methods described by surviving victims are enough to make your skin crawl. Americans have little to nothing to say as their own country has embraced the medieval concept of human torture, which morally, sends us centuries back in time.
The United States migrated from being a country that abhorred such behavior, to become one under Republican leadership that gladly and happily embraces the idea.
None of this helps the people of Sri Lanka. In fact, it was the United States President G.W. Bush who made arrangements to block the leadership of the Tamil population from advocating for itself in world politics. All it takes is a 'terrorist' designation and all political negotiating power flew out the window.
Bush's decision set the stage for Rajapaksa's Genocide, so it isn't surprising that gutless coward-like torture endorsing politicians in the USA remain tight lipped. They do know what happened however.
Up to 160k people remain missing from the Tamil Genocide of 2009 and the resulting Diaspora. Official counts of the number of dead come in generally around 40k, but four times that number of people were never seen again.
The SLA (Sri Lanka Army) burned and destroyed records, in an apparent attempt to squash evidence. It only partly worked.
Fear, Genocide and Torture in Sri Lanka - Salem-News.Com
The research performed by Freedom from Torture ...shows that torture is perpetrated by officials within both the military and the police and that people within the Tamil population who are perceived by the authorities as having links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) remain at risk of being detained and tortured.
