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tatus o t e am s n t e notorious concentration

camps of Sri Lankaev s on

8/18/2009 1By E.Logeswaran, Researcher


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Worlds largest Tamil Civilian hostage



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Locked up 300,000 Tamil civilians in detention camps



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Forcing separation of family members

Parents

Barbed Wire

Children separated from parents

Separated Fathers

8/18/2009 4By E.Logeswaran, ResearcherChildren paraded to foreign visitors


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40 to 50 Tamil girls have been taken away daily from the camps by the

r an an m ary an a use2200 Tamil girls

.365 of themtaken b the SriLankan StateTerrorists never

returned. Theremaining 1835

discriminatedand ill treated.Some of thembecame pregnantwithout theirknowledge.



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Many have been discriminated, illtreated

an or ure o ea as s own e ow



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200 people have been forced to die daily

as us ra e e ow resu ng n genoc e



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Lots of people have been allowed to die

treatment



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Causing physical and mental harm

leading to death



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Deliberately harming and disabling Tamils

ur ng every ava a e oppor un y



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Receiving bribes to release detainees and

Son kidnapped and mother traumatised 8/18/2009 12By E.Logeswaran, Researcher


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Children and elderly people have been falling and

Example



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making detainees beg for food and starve



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Food brought in is late, spoiled, lower

Fungus



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Sick and wounded in over crowded camps

Sleeping on the ground

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Tamils are forced to live under degrading human conditions with insufficient food, water, medicine, clean sanitation and shelter.

Syringe and a Medicine Bottle

Medicine capsules

Spoonful of Medicine Shelter

Waiting for drinking waterRunning to reach a food Waiting for the



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36,000 Tamils in the Concentration Camp are affected by flooding, 15.08.09

Camps are

guarded

with

more

troops

so

that

they

don't

escape

from

the

miseryTamils are left to suffer in wet clothes, soggy floors, no food and fear of more rain in the night



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Limited Tamil children allowed to study



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Stopping visits from relatives, MPs, media and

Sweden FM MP Bob Rae Relatives outside the camps

Tamil MPsConcentration Camps under Army Control8/18/2009 20By E.Logeswaran, Researcher


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Preventing the release of 300,000 civilians with excuses such as screening of detainees, clearing mines & building homes

Stop torturing Tamils to death in the name of screening and free them now

Let Tamils live in the area free of mines Allow Tamils to rebuild their homes8/18/2009 22By E.Logeswaran, Researcher


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Unlock the camps in Sri Lanka and provide safety and

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Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the recent war in North East Sri Lanka and livingn camps are e ng en e as c uman r g s nc u ng ree om o movemen , sa mnes y

International on Monday. The organization's Secretary General, Irene Khan, launched the

Unlock the Camps campaign at the start the organization's International Council Meeting, a .

Two months after the end of the fighting, the Sri Lankan authorities are still not addressing. .

In addition, these are effectively detention camps. They are run by the military and the camp

government's claim that it needs to hold people to carry out screening is not a justifiablereason to detain civilians including entire families, the elderly and children, for an indefinite

eriod.

Displaced people have even been prevented from talking to aid workers. With no independentmonitors able to freely visit the camps, many people are unprotected and at risk fromenforced disappearances, abductions, arbitrary arrest and sexual violence.



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Notorious Sinhalese who are responsible for locking up the 300,000 Tamil civilians in concentration camps in Vanni

Chamal RajapaksaMinister

Basil Rajapaksa

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2Presidential Advisor

Mahinda RajapaksaPresident of Sri Lanka Sarath Fonseka

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Gotabhava Rajapaksa

C e o De ence Sta

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Rajapaksa brothers & general Fonseka have been committing crimes against Tamils


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It is time for the international

commun ty to act David Begg supports Amnesty International's call for an

31 Jul 2009

Affairs Micheal Martin, ICTU's General Secretary David Begg'

an independent inquiry into war crimes in Sri Lanka. "The

government will take initiatives on the international level,

8/18/2009 By E.Logeswaran, Researcher 25inquiry."

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