Stop-Torture-Report

if I did they would “kill me in the night”. He said that they won the war and
they wanted Tamil women to bear Sinhala children. They gave me my clothes.
They watched me dress. They were still in a happy mood. I do not know the
names of the four army officers who raped me. I never saw them again after
the day they raped me.”
(Witness Number Withheld for Witness Protection)
The witness subsequently identified one of the four rapists from a photo board
consisting of over 100 members of the security forces and civilians.
A security force insider witness also identified the man and told us he worked in
Zone 2 of Manik Farm, while stationed at MIC in Joseph Camp, as well as his
name and rank at the time.
Torturer Identified
A Major has been identified by a number of witnesses as being in a position of
command at Joseph Camp and elsewhere, and present and participating in
torture of detainees. ITJP is in possession of several photographs of this Major
and his name. A security force witness testified that he was formerly with an
engineering regiment during the war but was believed to be in charge of a
rehabilitation camp or detention centre after the war.
A male witness described seeing the Major in Joseph Camp on several occasions
in 2010 while he was being tortured. The witness described the Major cocking
his pistol and putting it to the witness's head a number of times. A female
witness testified that the Major was one of her team of interrogators in Joseph
Camp in 2010 and was present while she had a bag soaked in petrol tied around
her head. She was subjected to rape while in the camp but the Major was not
present at the time. Another female rape survivor saw the Major inside Joseph
Camp issuing orders to a female guard while she was reporting after being
detained there.
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