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A female witness saw the Major when she surrendered to the army in April 2009<br />
and says he did nothing to stop people being beaten in his presence. A male<br />
witness places the same Major at the Wadduvakal Bridge on 17 May 2009 as<br />
thousands of war survivors poured out of the war zone. An additional witness<br />
saw him at a checkpoint in Vavuniya Town while a further witness reported<br />
seeing him outside Oddusuddan Camp and in Mullaitivu speaking with Tamil<br />
informers in the area.<br />
A number of the survivors we took statements from either identified the same<br />
man as their abuser or identified him as being in Joseph Camp at the relevant<br />
times; the insider security force witnesses directly or indirectly corroborated the<br />
survivors’ statements.<br />
In other words, the victimisation of young male and female detainees at Joseph<br />
Camp was blatant, repeated, and proudly boasted of by the perpetrators<br />
amongst themselves in the camp, as well as widespread and systematic.<br />
Despite persistent allegations over many years of torture taking place inside<br />
Joseph Camp documented by various NGO’s, absolutely nothing has been done<br />
by the Government of Sri Lanka to bring any of the perpetrators to justice 51 .<br />
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Joseph Camp was named as a site where torture took place in: Freedom from <strong>Torture</strong> submission to the Committee against <strong>Torture</strong> for<br />
its examination of Sri Lanka in November 2011, and multiple other NGO reports.<br />
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