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XI. Recommendations To the Government of Sri Lanka • End the practice of enforced disappearances by the security forces and progovernment armed groups, including the Karuna group, and EPDP, and prosecute those responsible. • Make public the names of all persons detained by the military and police under Emergency Regulations and other laws, and provide those detained prompt access to their families and legal counsel. • Make public the reports of the Presidential Commission on Abductions, Disappearances and Killings (Tillakaratne Commission). • Sign and ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. • Bring an end to torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, and extrajudicial executions by state security forces and pro-government armed groups. • Institute disciplinary proceedings or prosecute as appropriate members of the security forces implicated in human rights abuses, including individuals criminally responsible as a matter of command responsibility when superiors knew or should have known of ongoing crimes but failed to take action. • Bring an end to child abductions by the Karuna group, and ensure that abducted children and young men are released and returned to their families. • Cease using the Emergency Regulations for arbitrary arrests, including interference with media, humanitarian NGOs, and other civil society organizations. • Cease the forcible return of internally displaced persons and instead work with displaced communities to provide for genuinely voluntary and safe returns. • Cooperate with humanitarian agencies to ensure that they are able to obtain access to populations at risk, including those in areas of LTTE control; • Work with donor governments to establish an international human rights monitoring mission under United Nations auspices to monitor violations of human rights and international humanitarian law by all parties to the conflict; • Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. 123 Human Rights Watch August 2007
To the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) • Cease extrajudicial executions of civilians, including members of Tamil groups and political parties. Discipline as appropriate any member who commits human rights abuses. • Cease all indiscriminate attacks on civilians, stop preventing civilians from leaving areas of active fighting, and provide humanitarian agencies safe passage in areas under their control. • Stop extortion, intimidation, and mistreatment of persons who are perceived to be against the LTTE. • Stop all recruitment of children, including voluntary enlistment as well as recruitment effected by abduction or other force or coercion, and cease the use of children in military operations. Cease the forced recruitment of all adults. • Release all children from LTTE forces and give those recruited before age 18 the option to leave. • Cooperate with UNICEF in ensuring the safe return of all child soldiers to their families. • Take all appropriate steps to ensure LTTE commanders and other cadres do not recruit children under the age of 18 into LTTE forces and provide the international community (through UNICEF or the OHCHR) with documentation of disciplinary actions taken against LTTE cadres responsible for such recruitment. • Allow UNICEF, the SLMM, and domestic and international humanitarian and human rights agencies access to all LTTE camps—military and otherwise—to assess the age of recruits, and identify children for demobilization. To the Karuna Group (TMVP and its military wing) • Cease the forced recruitment of all persons. • Stop all recruitment of children, including voluntary enlistment as well as recruitment by abduction or other force or coercion. • Cease the use of children in military operations. • Release children and all others forcibly recruited for Karuna forces and cooperate with UNICEF in ensuring the safe return of minors to their families. Return to War 124
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Karuna group ......................
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I. Summary What I am saying is, if
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extrajudicial killings to unlawful
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2002. Since January 2006 more than
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against them, and list the location
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Emergency Regulations (372 Tamils,
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The mother of an abducted boy from
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disappearances. The police released
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commission, highlighting examples o
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Methodology This report is based pr
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discriminating against Tamils in th
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intimidation to force civilians who
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International humanitarian law proh
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in which an LTTE cadre shot and kil
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the Savukady camp in Batticaloa to
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they would no longer be responsible
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In mid-May the government began a n
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On May 29, UNHCR commented on the g
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Grama Niladari Divisions (the small
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The salvos landed in and around the
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didn’t take him to the hospital b
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While describing the loss of civili
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saw no weapons, no bunkers or artil
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V. Enforced Disappearances and Abdu
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months of 2007. 84 A government com
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In one illustrative case documented
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The Valvettiturai police registered
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would send him by bus or train to T
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wife tried his cell phone several t
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then that his brother had paid, alt
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as the disseminators of “LTTE pro
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It is evident that many of the [dis
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The government’s lack of commitme
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A lodge-owner who had 29 out of 36
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arguing that evicting Tamils from C
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VII. Emergency Regulations In Augus
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