Stop-Torture-Report

At times, some were held in cells with other detainees. One woman was
detained with several underage girls in their teens; they were all kept naked
with their hands and feet tied. Several times a day one of the girls would be
taken out of the room by male security force officers to be raped. The witness
herself described being raped many times by many men.
A security force insider testified that the rape of Tamil women was something
his colleagues in MIC in Joseph Camp boasted about doing:
“They threatened and tortured them. If the girls said yes to sex the torture
would stop. If they said no, they were sent to rehabilitation camps. Some were
raped. I know this because the men would brag about it. The informants were
to identify not only cadres but beautiful girls for the MIC men to rape at nights
after they were drinking. This happened many times. I heard some MIC men
bragging about raping Tamil women in the camps. They would say that they
had raped 15 each or more.”
(Witness 67)
Commanders and Perpetrators
Military intelligence staff based in Joseph Camp were active in detaining and
interrogating suspects in the Vavuniya area, including in Manik Farm,
rehabilitation camps and checkpoints. Sometimes they went further afield.
ITJP is in possession of multiple photographs and more than 40 names and
ranks of military intelligence staff, many of whom were based in Joseph Camp,
and who have been identified in the sworn statements of survivors and insiders
who tortured or were complicit in the torture of detainees. We will not include
the pictures of the alleged perpetrators or name them all due to witness
protection concerns. We also possess the phone numbers of a multitude of
alleged perpetrators and those complicit in these crimes, and know where a
number of them and their families live or are now stationed.
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