Stop-Torture-Report

this time because if the Government of Sri Lanka found out that I was providing
evidence against the CID and the Secretary of Defence, harm would surely
come to my family who are still in Sri Lanka.”
(Witness Number Withheld for Witness Protection Reasons)
In the Trincomalee Naval Dockyard secret site (see case study below) detainees
were also told by guards that they were “under Gota’s surveillance”, by which
they understood that this site was maintained by officers who reported directly
to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the then Secretary of Defence and President’s brother.
Perpetrators identified by Tamil Survivors and Security Force/Government
Insiders
ITJP has collected the names and many of the ranks or locations of 62 people
alleged by victims of torture and/or sexual abuse to have been involved in one
or more of the following acts: abduction/kidnapping, illegal detention, torture
(sexual and non-sexual), sexual abuse, extortion/ransoming and human
smuggling.
Known Torture Sites
When we conducted our investigations for our 2014 report, only 12 of the 40
witnesses could identify the sites in which they were tortured. Several of the
known sites were “rehabilitation” camps for suspected former LTTE members.
The vast majority of witnesses had no idea where they were taken; great care
was taken to blindfold them on the way in and out of the sites and to release
them somewhere secluded after their families had paid a ransom to the
security forces. This practice of blindfolding detainees to obscure the location
where torture and sexual violence occurs has continued throughout 2014 and
2015.
ITJP now has a list of 41 known sites, identified by torture and sexual violence
survivors now abroad, as the places where they were abused post-war. This list
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