Stop-Torture-Report

“The man removed all my clothes by force.
He lit a cigarette and burned me with
the cigarette in several places on my thighs
and along my arms. Then he raped me….
When I was released, my father was there with
my children. He said he had to pay a lot of
money to senior people to obtain my release.
My father said I had been held in the ‘Fourth
Floor’, which is notorious in Sri Lanka.”
Witness 30
(“Fourth Floor”, CID Headquarters, Colombo)
“A second man in army uniform came into the room with a large plastic bag
and a substance like petrol inside it. I smelled alcohol from both men. The
second man put the bag over my head and upper body and held it tightly
around my ribcage. I heard the man saying ‘LTTE’ and saying in Sinhalese
that I was an LTTE member. I struggled to breathe and fainted. When I
woke up I was lying on the floor in the same room with no clothes on. There
was no one in the room, the door was closed and all my clothes were lying
on the floor. The plastic bag was not there. There was a lot of blood coming
out of my vagina.”
Witness 9
(Poonthottam “Rehabilitation” Camp, Vavuniya)
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