2000 • On 12 January 2000, the
Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) proclaimed that government forces were using systematic rape as a weapon of war: {{Blockquote • Between 21 and 27 June 2000, Yogalingam Vijitha, a 27-year-old Tamil woman from
Kayts was tortured by policemen in a
Negombo police station. She was badly assaulted and raped with a chili coated hard cone-like object (a plantain tree flower). The policemen beat her with poles all over her body and trampled on her with boots. They also inserted pins under the nails of her fingers and toes, and slapped her ears. :At one time, they put a bag filled with chili powder and petrol over her face, whilst she was stripped to her underwear. A subsequent medical examination confirmed she had been tortured and raped, with "many scars on her limbs and torso". Due to the attack she was suffering from
post traumatic stress disorder. No one was held accountable for these crimes. • In late October 2000, following the
Bindunuwewa massacre of Tamil detainees, Sinhalese mob violence spread to other areas of the Hill Country where estate Tamils were attacked and three women were abducted and raped.
2001 • On 1 February 2001, a Tamil woman called T. Ananthy (28) was raped by the
Special Task Force at Cheddipalayam,
Batticaloa District. She was then blindfolded with a sock by a navy officer in a van, before being stripped and raped for 15 minutes. Both victims were then brought into the office of the police where they were forced to parade naked in front of the security forces. Finally, they were both made to crouch and had their hands and legs tied to a pole which was placed between two tables to keep them hanging. They were then left in that position for 90 minutes, whilst being poked in the genitals, pinched and beaten with thick wire. A subsequent medical examination confirmed that both women had been raped and tortured, with multiple nail marks being present on the limbs of Wijikala. Despite the victims identifying three police officers and nine navy personnel as the perpetrators, no one was held accountable for the crimes due to government intervention. • On 20 April 2001, Vijayaratnam Subashini (19), was sexually assaulted by more than 10 navy officers. She was captured from a LTTE boat after returning from the open sea and being surrounded by the navy. Once she was brought on to the navy gunboat, she was stripped naked, blindfolded and had her hands tied behind her back. More than 10 navy officers then touched and squeezed her breasts and genital area. They also penetrated her vagina with their fingers one by one while she was screaming. The whole sexual assault lasted around 2 hours. Thangiah Vijayalalitha, a 14-year-old girl, was also captured from the same LTTE boat by the navy and was sexually assaulted by more than 10 navy officers on the same navy gunboat. No one was held accountable for these sexual assaults and both Tamil females were held without charge at the Welikade women's prison in Colombo. • On 31 May 2001, in Neervely,
Jaffna District, Poomani Saravanai (70) was gang raped by two Sri Lankan Army soldiers in front of her son. Despite identifying the 2 guilty soldiers the next day, the police did not initiate any charges. • On 24 June 2001, in Colombo, Velu Arshadevi (28), a widowed Tamil mother of two was forcefully taken to a Sri Lankan army camp at 3 am by a Sinhalese policeman called S. Premathilake. She was then gang raped for the next hour and a half by the policeman and two of his colleagues, despite crying out for her attackers to stop. After being gang raped, the rapists threatened her not to tell anyone. • In 2001, a Tamil woman named Parvati was raped by the Sri Lankan Army due to her husband being a member of the LTTE. Two men dragged her into the kitchen and raped her after they entered the house looking for her husband. • In 2001, it was estimated that every two weeks a Tamil woman was raped by the Sri Lankan Army or police, and that every 2 months a Tamil woman was gang raped and murdered by the same forces.
2002 • In early January 2002, two married Tamil women were abducted by armed men and gang raped in Addalaichenai,
Amparai District. The 2 sisters had gone to work in rice fields. No action was taken by the police to apprehend the rapists. • A 35-year-old widow in Thiruperunthurai, close to Batticaloa town, accused a LTTE cadre, "Gadaffi," of attempted rape. The woman had lodged a complaint at the LTTE office in Batticaloa. However, LTTE men there had started acting threateningly towards the woman. A complaint was lodged with the local Monitoring Mission. It was believed Gadaffi was later disciplined by the LTTE.
2003 • According to the
US State Department report on human rights in Sri Lanka in 2003, there were several rapes of women committed by Sri Lankan security forces. Despite this, there were no successful convictions and
impunity prevailed. On 23 October, two policemen attempted to rape a Tamil woman called Mrs. Selvarajah at Uyilankulam in
Mannar District. On 26 August, three soldiers attempted to rape a woman in
Vadamarachchi in the
Jaffna District. • On 19 December 2003, a Tamil youth Yogarajah Antony (22), a former LTTE member who was then working under the local
LTTE intelligence chief, was accused of the rape and murder of a Tamil female called Nishanthini Shanthalingam (17). The LTTE took Antony to their custody giving the impression they would punish him.
2004 • In October 2004, the Special Task Force abducted the 19-year-old brother of a Tamil Catholic priest in Amparai District. He was kept in a STF camp for 2 weeks and severely tortured. He was also sodomized and gang raped by the STF when they were drunk. Upon release, the victim could hardly walk or talk, and was hunched due to repeated beatings on his spine. His genitals were swollen and his face was disfigured with cigarettes burns. His body was also bruised all over. As a result of the torture he developed post-traumatic depression and suicidal tendencies.
2005 • In early 2005, the Sri Lankan Army raped a Tamil woman in
Batticaloa District, who gave the following account: {{Blockquote • On 5 March 2005, 50 Tamil refugees (including 27 women) returning from India disembarked on a sand bank near
Talaimannar. 5 armed men then robbed them and raped 5 of the women. One of the rape victims was Rajitha Rajan (25), whose husband Mylvaganam Rajan confirmed she was raped at gunpoint. The locals held the
Sri Lankan Navy to be the prime suspect for these crimes. • On 16 December 2005, a Tamil woman called
Ilayathamby Tharsini (20) was brutally raped and killed in her home town of
Pungudutheevu. Earlier that day she was on her way to her aunt's place, before being abducted by unknown men close to a
Sri Lankan Navy post. Her body was found the next day, completely naked, in an abandoned well near the Sri Lankan Navy camp at a place called Maduthuveli. A Sri Lankan Navy hat was found at the crime scene. According to the post mortem report conducted at
Jaffna Teaching Hospital she was brutally raped before strangulation. She had also suffered numerous injuries throughout her body caused by fingernails and biting, including a severely bitten breast. After the body was found locals violently protested in front of the Navy camp who they blamed for the crime. • On 23 December 2005, an LTTE claymore mine killed 15 Navy officers in
Pesalai,
Mannar District. In retaliation, the navy went on a rampage through the village. First they raided all the houses and beat up anyone who protested. Nirmala Rose Mary, a Tamil mother of 6, witnessed her neighbor being gang raped by a few Navy men. She saw the navy officers rip open the young girl's upper garment, before they raped her. After raping her they stomped on her chest, abusing her for being a Tamil. Then her hut was torched, and civilian property was looted. The village was left in flames.
2006 • On 30 January 2006, five Tamil aid workers of
Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation were abducted by the pro-government
TMVP paramilitary group in
Welikanda. Four of the male aid workers were tortured and shot dead by TMVP cadres. One abductee, a 25-year-old woman named
Premini Thanuskodi, was gang raped by over 14 TMVP cadres in succession before being hacked to death. • On 12 April 2006, following a
pogrom against Tamils in Trincomalee, a surge in rape of Tamil women by the Sri Lankan security forces was reported. During the pogrom, 4 Tamil women were abducted from a shop in a van and then subsequently raped and robbed. In Anbuvelipuram, a suburb of Trincomalee, a doctor reported many incidents of rape of Tamil women committed by the Sri Lankan Navy and home-guards. These included one 18-year-old girl and two older women who had consulted him. • The doctor also reported three girls from Jaffna living at 3rd mile post, Trincomalee who were raped at night by security forces in their own home a few months later. Another case involved a Tamil woman being raped in front of her husband in Kanniya, Trincomalee District. Finally, 3–4 poor Tamil women were raped in Maharambaikkulam,
Vavuniya by military intelligence operatives in the same time period. an organized Sinhalese mob killed several Tamils and burnt 45 houses in the Tamil villages of Menkamam and Bharathipuram. Several Tamil women were also raped in the attack. • On 8 June 2006, Sri Lankan soldiers brutally tortured and killed a family of four in
Vankalai,
Mannar District. The victims were carpenter Sinnaiah Moorthy Martin (38), his wife Mary Madeleine (27), and their two children, daughter Anne Lakshika (9) and son Anne Dilakshan (7). The wife was raped and killed. The two children were hacked to death and hanged in nooses from the neck. Dilakshan was disemboweled with his gut protruding from his stomach, whilst Anne Lakshika was raped with her father's carpenter tools. The father was also killed and hanged. Earlier that day three soldiers were seen by villagers at the entrance to the Martin home. The locals blamed the Sri Lankan Army for the atrocity; and stated that the security personnel stationed there were uncouth and engaged in indecent behavior such as exhibiting condoms to the schoolgirl population. No one was held accountable for the crime. • On 4 July 2006, Ambalavanar Punithavathy, 43, a Tamil woman from
Uduvil in
Jaffna was shot dead after being gang raped late at night by the Sri Lankan army. The assailants forced entry into her home under the pretext of searching the house. The victim's elderly mother was also attacked, and admitted to Jaffna Teaching hospital with serious injuries. • In August 2006, a
massacre of aid workers was carried out in
Muttur,
Trincomalee District.
University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) reported that a
Muslim home guard called Jehangir had committed the massacre after he had sworn to 'kill all Tamils'. Jehangir was also noted to have raped several Tamil women. • In 2006, the British Refugee Council conducted a study of rape among asylum seekers in the UK. Half of the 153 women who had been raped were Sri Lankan Tamils. • According to the anti-LTTE
UTHR(J), a woman linked to the Mallavi area alleged that LTTE cadres working in the farm raped three Estate Tamil women settled in the north. • In December 2006, PT, a 23 year old Tamil male was abducted from his home in Vavuniya by the Sri Lanka Army. He was taken to the Joseph Camp where he was detained in a toilet for 28 days. Every day he would be taken into a separate torture room and hung upside down and beaten with sand filled pipes. He was also burned with cigarettes and sexually abused at night. This included inserting a beer bottle into his anus, crushing his penis and beating him with wires. On one occasion they hung him upside down with his head touching the used toilet bowl and told him they would make him eat his own feces.
2007 • In 2007, the
TMVP and
EPDP paramilitary groups were involved in forcibly trafficking Tamil women and children into sex slavery. The
EPDP operated child trafficking rings on
Delft island which the EPDP "owns". They took Tamil children and sold them into slavery in prostitution rings and slave labour camps in India and
Malaysia. The children were smuggled out of the country with connivance of Customs and Immigration officials at the
Colombo Airport. The
EPDP also forced young Tamil women to have sex with 5-10 Sri Lankan soldiers a night in prostitution rings. Likewise, the
TMVP also forced Tamil women from
IDP camps to join prostitution rings. • In 2007, a young Tamil woman from
Jaffna who had come to
Colombo to study, was arrested and detained by security forces. In detention, she was tortured and sexually abused, suffering cigarette burns to her thighs and rape with an object. After release, she attempted to leave the country and was offered help by a
Sri Lankan Muslim man who said he would arrange the travel and paperwork. However, on arrival he took her to a hotel where he raped her multiple times. • In 2007, a Tamil woman was taken into custody by security forces, who would ply her with alcohol before raping her. A female officer helped orchestrate the rapes, which were often filmed and photographed. She was threatened with death if she dared report the rapes, and became suicidal as a result. • In September 2007, a Tamil man Roy Manojkumar Samathanam (40) was arrested by Sri Lankan security officers and detained for a year. He was accused of aiding the LTTE by importing electronic equipment, a charge he denies. During his detention he was tortured regularly. He also witnessed other detainees being hit with cricket wickets, electrocuted, and anally raped with iron rods. • In 2007, Sri Lankan security forces were involved in raping the dead bodies of female LTTE cadres using their weapons. A trophy video showing the grotesque sexual violations was exposed by
Channel 4 News in 2014. In the video, cheerful Sinhalese soldiers laugh and cheer as they rape the dead bodies. • On 28 December 2007, the Sri Lankan Army gang-raped a woman in
Jaffna, according to a women's welfare organization. • According to the
US State Department report on human rights in Sri Lanka in 2007, the resumption of war led to an increase in sexual violence perpetrated by government forces. Human rights groups based in the north reported that government forces were sexually exploiting the wives of men who had
'disappeared'. In the east, Sri Lankan military action displaced 300,000 Tamil civilians by mid 2007. There were widespread reports that the security forces were sexually abusing displaced females after detaining the men. By the end of 2007, documented reports of the security forces raping Tamil women in the western
Batticaloa District continued. The victims were usually wives and daughters of Tamil men who were temporarily detained by security forces. • In April 2008, a 17 year old Tamil child, BN, was taken by security forces from his home in
Vavuniya to the Veppankulam camp, as his father was alleged to be an LTTE member. He was then raped and tortured for 2 weeks. • During March–May 2008, the
STF launched an operation to video and register all Tamil families in the village of Kolavil near
Akkaraipattu. Following this operation, members of the STF broke into houses where Tamil women were living without males, and committed several rapes. 12 cases of rape of this nature were documented in March 2008. • On 10 May 2008, in
Kalmunai, three drunken armed men from the
STF invaded the mud house of a Tamil woman called Seetha. Her two daughters aged 16 and 18 were then raped in front of her, while she was gagged and bound. The girls were left in a pool of blood, with second one becoming unconscious. Later that evening, security forces returned to intimidate the family into silence. The father of the family was beaten, and the older daughter was abducted in a white van never to be seen again. • In 2008, multiple Tamil women were raped by the security forces in villages north of
Vavuniya. The security forces entered the houses at night and forced the women to come with them, before dropping them back in the morning. 20 Tamil victims of rape have been recorded, some of whom were impregnated following the ordeal. • In November 2008, a 34 year old Tamil civilian woman Mrs. RN was taken into custody by the security forces after a search operation at her uncle's house in
Trincomalee. She was then raped and tortured by the security forces.
2009 About
300,000 Tamil civilians displaced in the final stages of the
Sri Lankan Civil War were detained by the Sri Lankan security forces in several camps in
Vavuniya District, known by the generic name "Manik Farm", which was then the largest refugee camp in the world. The camps were known for their poor conditions and incidents of sexual violence by the Sri Lankan security forces. • An international aid worker who regularly visited the Manik Farm internment camp in
Vavuniya District between January and May 2009 reported on multiple rapes committed by the security forces against Tamil women in the camps. The rapes would occur in several places, including near the female bathing area and at night when women were alone. The witness also observed multiple young Tamil girls being taken into custody by security forces under the pretence of 'investigation'. They would usually be taken during the night and then returned in the day after being sexually assaulted. • In February 2009, Sri Lankan soldiers were witnessed raping multiple Tamil women. One female witness described how a group of civilians were crossing over to army held territory deep in the jungle. On arrival, the women were separated from the men, and several of them were raped, with some being killed. Another eyewitness saw a soldier enter a civilian tent in the internment camps in
Vavuniya and rape a Tamil woman. Despite the rape being reported, no action was taken by the authorities. • In February 2009, a 34 year old Tamil women who had worked for the LTTE was taken to a camp in
Vavuniya by security forces. She was then tortured and gang raped by Sri Lankan soldiers over a 15-day period. She was raped so many times that she lost count. • In early 2009, the Sri Lankan Army used the
Kilinochchi Hospital as a soldiers' mess serving food and drinks for off duty soldiers, and providing Tamil girls as sex slaves. Two Tamil civilian girls who escaped the hospital confirmed that they were used as sex slaves by the army along with 50 other girls and rotated. They had initially escaped the shelling and surrendered themselves to the army at Visuvamadu, before being transported to the hospital. They were kept in the doctors' quarters and transferred in the nights to an upstairs room in a larger building, which was used as a guest house for soldiers. They were then raped by the soldiers. A Tamil cleaner who was later sent to the hospital discovered discarded women's clothes and bloodstained handprints on the walls. • During February and March 2009, an international aid worker observed at least 200 mutilated dead bodies of mainly Tamil women and young girls being held at a mortuary in a government hospital. The bodies of the Tamil women were naked and bore signs of rape and sexual mutilation. These included "knife wounds and long slashes, bite marks and deep scratches on the breasts, and vaginal mutation by knives, bottles and sticks". Most of the bodies also bore close range gunshot wounds to the head suggestive of execution. • A 50-year-old Tamil grandmother told the
Human Rights Watch that when she and her family, along with 20 others, surrendered to the
Sri Lankan Army in Matalan in late March 2009, they were all forced to strip naked and all the women were made to walk around the soldiers in a circle while the soldiers laughed at them. All the women were then raped in front of everyone. The grandmother and her daughter were raped in front of her grandchildren; she was also later groped during a questioning. • A Tamil woman called Gowri recounted that the army taunted Tamil women sexually, as they were herded into detention in 2009: {{Blockquote :She then witnessed soldiers summon pretty young girls out of the line at gunpoint before raping them: {{Blockquote • On 19 April 2009, KN, a 30 year old Tamil woman who fled the final warzone was taken to the Arunachalam camp in
Vavuniya by the Sri Lankan Army. There she was raped multiple times by 4 -5 officials. She recounted: "I resisted each time and they would beat me and rape me. This went on for a week." • In May 2009, the UK government deported a Tamil woman (51) back to Sri Lanka. On arrival, she was detained by security forces before being beaten, sexually abused and tortured. She gave the following statement: {{Blockquote • On 5 May 2009,
Channel 4 News exposed the dire conditions inside the internment camps in
Vavuniya, where displaced Tamil civilians were being detained. An aid worker at the camp confirmed that young Tamil women were being abducted by Sri Lankan soldiers and raped with
impunity: {{Blockquote :The aid worker further stated that women had to bathe in the open, and that the dead naked bodies of three women had been found at a bathing area of the camp called zone 2. This led to the UN requesting for the soldiers guarding the bathing area to be replaced by 20 female police officers, and for civilians, not the security forces, to investigate complaints of sexual abuse within the camp. Channel 4 News reporters were subsequently deported from the country by the Sri Lankan government after the exposé. • Another witness confirmed that in May 2009, the dead naked bodies of Tamil girls were found near the river where the camp detainees bathed. The bodies had bite marks and other signs of sexual assault. Other witnesses described how security forces would sit in trees near the river and watch the women as they changed and bathed. • The
UN Panel of Experts found that in 2009, Tamil women in the internment camps were forced by security forces to perform sexual acts in exchange for food and shelter. • In 2009, a mentally handicapped Tamil girl from the
Vanni was imprisoned and used as a sex slave by the Sri Lankan Army for 18 months. She was dragged out and raped almost every night by Sri Lankan soldiers along with four other girls. As a result of the mass rapes she gave birth to a female baby. :In 2011, she was suffering daily nightmares of the experience and would wake up frightened, crying about what happened her to in that cell. She also had scars of cigarette burns on her genitalia. When assessed by a female
psychiatrist in
Oxford, she had a screaming fit when she saw a hospital porter in uniform and ran for her life. She also fell at the feet of the psychiatrist and begged her not to take her outside of the consulting room, as she was scared she would be raped outside. She could not bear to be touched even by the female doctor. • In 2009, an LTTE cadre called Neriyen recalled hearing the screams of female LTTE members as they were being raped by the Sri Lankan Army in the distance. They were screaming 'Older brother, help us, save us!'. • On 18 May 2009, Tamil journalist and newsreader
Isaipriya (27) was captured by the Sri Lankan Army before being raped and executed. Video footage later broadcast by
Channel 4 News showed Isaipriya alive and in the custody of the Sri Lankan military immediately before her death. Subsequent footage then showed Sri Lankan soldiers
summarily executing captured Tamils. The video then showed a number of dead bodies including a naked
Isaipriya with her hands tied behind her back, with a gash across her face and clear signs of sexual assault. An off-camera
Sinhala voice is heard in the same video saying "I would like to fuck it again" in the segment showing the dead naked bodies of
Isaipriya and another Tamil woman Ushalini Gunalingam (19). • A Sinhalese soldier who served in the 58 Division of the Sri Lankan Army confirmed that his colleagues massacred, tortured and mass raped Tamils in 2009. He said that even wounded civilians in hospital were shown no mercy: {{Blockquote :He tearfully recounted the heinous crimes committed by Sri Lankan soldiers: • Other Tamils who were raped by the 58 Division claimed that the soldiers were told by their 'boss' to "do whatever you want to do to them". The commander of the 58 Division at the time was
Shavendra Silva. • In 2009, a senior officer in the army directly told a witness that he had personally participated with his officers in the gang rape of surrendering LTTE females. He further recounted to the witness, that after the females were raped, one of their legs would be tied to a tree, and the other tied to a tractor. The tractor would then speed off causing the women's body to tear apart. • The
UN Panel of Experts referred to video footage and photos of naked bodies of sexually abused Tamil women taken by the Army as trophy videos in 2009. One video which was later broadcast by
Channel 4 showed Sri Lankan soldiers loading the naked female bodies onto a truck in a disrespectful manner. • On 6 July 2009,
Al Jazeera reported on the internment camps in
Vavuniya where more than 250,000 Tamil civilians were being detained behind barbed wire in appalling conditions. An international aid worker confirmed that several Tamil girls and women within the camp had become pregnant due to Sri Lankan Army rapes. • In July 2009, aid workers confirmed that Sri Lankan officials were running a prostitution racket with displaced Tamil women in an internment camp in Pulmoddai,
Trincomalee District. Senior government officials were aware of the racket but did nothing to stop it. The Sri Lankan foreign minister
Palitha Kohona publicly denied the accusations, stating not a single woman was raped. • In 2009, dozens of unmarried Tamil women in the camps had fallen pregnant and were separated from the other detainees to give birth to their babies, which were usually adopted out. Multiple people familiar with the affected women confirmed that several of the pregnancies were due to Army rapes. The soldiers would also freely touch the girls with impunity: {{Blockquote • In 2009, a Tamil UN staff member made a distress call to an international aid worker in Colombo. The distraught man recounted how the army had rounded up pretty young Tamil women and girls from the internment camps under the guise of cooking and cleaning for Sinhalese construction workers. They were all put on a bus, including his wife. When they returned a few days later, they had all been gang raped. • Many young Tamil women captured by the Sri Lankan Army were used as sex slaves. One woman called Vidhya Jayakumar recounted being sexually enslaved for 3 years in army camps following the end of war. Human rights lawyer Scott Gilmore described the case as the "worst account of sexual slavery" he had ever encountered. On the first night, Vidhya recalled being tied to a bed by Sinhalese female soldiers, before their commanding officer raped her violently. Subsequent to that, she was then detained in an army camp with other Tamil women, where every night, off-duty soldiers "would select a woman to rape". Later she was repeatedly raped at a police headquarters and another army camp. • The mothers of former LTTE cadres told religious figures that their daughters were being raped every night by soldiers in the detention centres. Some women in the camps also committed suicide after becoming pregnant as a result of the frequent gang rapes. • The
International Crisis Group confirmed that there were regular and credible reports of many Tamil women in the camps being raped by security forces in 2009. The women involved were too afraid to report the crime. • One aid worker testified to meeting several Tamil females in
Vavuniya Hospital who were impregnated following rapes by the army in the Manik Farm camp. Two of them were 12–13 years old, while the others were between 18 and 21. All had been threatened with death by the security forces to not tell anyone of their rapes. • Another woman who was raped in the camp described witnessing a "very young beautiful girl", a trainee nun being abducted against her will by 10 army men at around 1pm. She was then returned in a dishevelled and traumatised state at 8pm, with clear signs of having been gang raped and tortured. She found it difficult to walk and had cigarette burns all over her body. She said that her "life was over" and remained mentally disturbed. • Another young mother was taken from Manik farm to an Army camp. Both her and her toddler were stripped naked. When the toddler started screaming in terror, he was kicked along with his mother with army boots. She was then raped and tortured multiple times in front of her toddler for several weeks in a cell. • Another woman was gang raped and beaten by two Sinhalese men. One of the men whilst ejaculating on her face said that "all LTTE and Tamils must die". • In October 2009, UM, a 25 year old Tamil woman who had fled the final warzone in April 2009 was beaten and gang raped by soldiers. She recounts: {{Blockquote • In September 2009, a Tamil man (27) from Mannar with no link to the LTTE was fishing with his father, before coming under shellfire by the Navy. Their boat was hit, and he was left with a broken leg. He regained consciousness in a Navy camp, where multiple Navy officers then anally raped him repeatedly. :He was detained in the camp for 10 months, and raped frequently before being sent home. He was then told to regularly report back to the camp, where he was raped each time. The Navy threatened to rape his fiancée if he did not come to the camp. Despite reporting regularly to the camp, his fiancée was still raped. :4 days before he escaped the country, the Navy found out about his plans to leave and abducted him. They tortured him and inserted a pipe into his rectum, before pushing barbed wire through it. They then removed the pipe, leaving the barbed wire in the rectum, before withdrawing and inserting it several times to cause serious trauma. The officers said to him: {{Blockquote :In September 2012, he escaped Sri Lanka by boat to Australia. He was subsequently admitted into a mental hospital in Brisbane due to a deterioration in his mental state. Whilst there, a Tamil Gynaecologist provided him with numerous
menstrual pads due to rectal bleeding. He was also examined by Brian Senewiratne, who confirmed multiple perforations of the rectum consistent with barbed wire insertion. Senewiratne further stated that 'the photograph of his ripped anus is too dreadful' to publish. He subsequently underwent surgery for his ripped anus and received psychiatric treatment. Despite this, he remains mentally disturbed. • His fiancée (25) who became his wife also escaped the country due to the frequent rapes by the navy. Her medical report from the Mannar District General Hospital on 15 June 2013 confirmed the assaults: {{Blockquote == 2010s ==