Sri

Lanka Country Conditions Documents 2012

January to July 2012 (Package #1)
JANUARY-JULY 2012
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1 ARTICLES: Human Rights Watch, “UK: Suspend Deportations of
Tamils to Sri Lanka”, 29 May 2012, available online at
http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/05/29/uk-suspend-deportations-
tamils-sri-lanka
2 ARTICLES: Human Rights Watch, “Sri Lanka: Australia Should
Raise Torture Concerns”, 30 April 2012, available online at
http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/04/30/sri-lanka-australia-should-
raise-torture-concerns
3 ARTICLES: Human Rights Watch, “UK: Halt Deportations of Tamils
to Sri Lanka”, 25 February 2012, available online at
http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/02/24/uk-halt-deportations-tamils-
sri-lanka
4 ANNUAL REPORTS: Human Rights Watch, World Report 2012, “Sri
Lanka”, 22 January 2012, available online at
http://www.refworld.org/docid/4f2007c39.html
5 ARTICLES: Human Rights Watch, “Sri Lanka: Army Inquiry a
Delaying Tactic”, 15 February 2012, available online at
http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/02/15/sri-lanka-army-inquiry-
delaying-tactic
6 ARTICLES: Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), “Sri
Lanka: Legacy of war - unemployment and homelessness”, 21
May 2012, available online at http://www.refworld.org/docid/
4fbb84f02.html
7 ARTICLE: Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), “Sri
Lanka: Thousands missing three years after war ends”, 18 May
2012, available online at http://www.refworld.org/docid/
4fbb857d2.html
8 SUBMISSIONS TO UN BODIES: UN Human Rights Council/Working
Group on Universal Periodic Review, International Commission
Of Jurists, Submission to the Universal Periodic Review Of Sri
Lanka, Submitted April 2012, available online at
http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session14/LK/ICJ-
UPR_LKA_S14_2012_InternationalCommissionofJurists_E.pdf
(direct download of PDF)
9 REPORTS: International Crisis Group (ICG), Sri Lanka's North I:
The Denial of Minority Rights, 16 March 2012, Asia Report N°219
(front matter, pages 1-19, 30-32, 35), available online at
http://www.refworld.org/docid/4f6452cb2.html (redirects to
download of PDF)

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10 NEWS: R. K. Radhakrishnan, “Sri Lanka faces yet another rights
abuse allegation”, The Hindu, 11 April 2012 (also reprinted on
ICG website), available online at http://www.thehindu.com/news/
international/article3304088.ece
11 NEWS: Helen Pidd, “Sri Lankan journalists protest against state
media suppression”, The Guardian (UK), 12 July 2012 (also
reprinted on ICG website), available online at
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jul/12/sri-lankan-
journalists-protest-suppression
12 NEWS: Associated Press/New York Times, “Sri Lanka Arrests 9
Web Site Journalists”, 29 June 2012 (also reprinted on ICG
website), available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/
world/asia/sri-lanka-arrests-9-web-site-journalists.html?_r=0
13 NEWS: Louise Arbour, Globe & Mail/International Crisis Group,
“Tamils await their peace dividend”, 30 Jan 2012, available online
at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/tamils-await-
their-peace-dividend/article554511/
14 ARTICLES: International Federation for Human Rights, “Sri Lanka:
Smear campaign against Ms. Sunila Abeysekara, Ms. Nimalka
Fernando, Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu and Mr. Sunanda
Deshapriya”, 27 March 2012, available online at
http://www.fidh.org/en/asia/sri-lanka/Sri-Lanka-Smear-campaign-
against
15 ARTICLES: Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, “Sri
Lanka: Release of key suspects in the killing of Human Rights
Defender Pattani Razeek questionable”, Bangkok, 31 July 2012,
available online at http://www.forum-asia.org/?p=15285
16 ARTICLES: Asian Legal Resource Centre, “SRI LANKA/FRANCE:
Torture in Sri Lanka -- when arbitrariness prevails”, 26 June
2012, available online at http://www.humanrights.asia/news/alrc-
news/ALRC-PRL-002-2012
17 PUBLIC STATEMENTS: Human Rights Law Centre Australia, Asian
Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), and
others, Open Letter to the Commonwealth Secretary-General, 21
September 2012, available online at https://www.forum-
asia.org/?p=15446
18 SUBMISSIONS TO UN BODIES: UN Human Rights Council, “Sri
Lanka: Abductors threaten the supreme court of Sri Lanka”,
Written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre,
a non-governmental organization in general consultative status,
22 February 2012, A/HRC/19/NGO/53, available online at
http://www.undocs.org/A/HRC/19/NGO/53 (direct download of
PDF)

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19 World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) (ARTICLES)
19.1 OMCT, “Sri Lanka: Harassment and intimidation faced by Mrs.
Sandya Ekneligoda, wife of the disappeared journalist, Mr.
Prageeth Ekneligoda”, 24 April 2012, available online at
http://www.omct.org/urgent-campaigns/urgent-
interventions/sri-lanka/2012/04/d21770/
19.2 OMCT and International Federation for Human Rights, “Sri
Lanka: Acts of intimidation and harassment against Mr.
Asela Bandara Ihagama”, 16 March 2012, available online
at http://www.fidh.org/en/asia/sri-lanka/Sri-Lanka-Acts-of-
intimidation-and
19.3 OMCT, “Sri Lanka: Ongoing enforced disappearance of Mr.
Sinnavan Stephen Sunthararaj”, 15 March 2012, available
online at http://www.omct.org/human-rights-
defenders/urgent-interventions/sri-lanka/2012/03/d21674/
19.4 OMCT, “Sri Lanka: Abduction of Mr. Ramasamy Prabaharan
who filed a case against the police for torture”, 16
February 2012, available online at
http://www.omct.org/urgent-campaigns/urgent-
interventions/sri-lanka/2012/02/d21648/
20 Asian Human Rights Commission[1] (AHRC) (ARTICLES)
20.1 AHRC, “SRI LANKA: A man is arbitrarily arrested, detained
and brutally tortured by the Thambuththegama Police, and
threatened with further torture if he speaks out”, 3 July
2012 (Mr. WA Pramal Meheran), available online at
http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/AHRC-
UAC-117-2012
20.2 AHRC, “SRI LANKA: An innocent man is severely assaulted
without explanation by the Gampola Police”, 29 June 2012
(Mr. JA Susantha Kumara Jayasinghe), available online at
http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/AHRC-
UAC-114-2012
20.3 AHRC, “SRI LANKA: An innocent man is brutally assaulted by
Thambuththegama Police; police officers receive impunity
for their actions”, 28 June 2012 (Mr. Thusitha Ratnayake),
available online at http://www.humanrights.asia/news/
urgent-appeals/AHRC-UAC-112-2012

[1]
For data on 2011 cases, please see AHRC’s Special Compilation: Torture & ill-
treatment in Sri Lanka, December 2011, available at http://www.article2./pdf/v10n04.pdf.
For data prior to that, please see AHRC’s SRI LANKA: Cases of torture and ill treatment
recorded from 2006-2010/2011, available at
http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/special-reports/AHRC-SPR-001-2011/view.

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20.4 AHRC, “SRI LANKA: Web censorship reaches new level --
Five Tamil language web sites blocked”, 28 June 2012,
available online at http://www.humanrights.asia/news/
forwarded-news/AHRC-FPR-029-2012
20.5 AHRC, “SRI LANKA: Yet another man is killed by the police”,
27 June 2012 (Mr. M.D. Kalum Priyanath), available online
at http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/
AHRC-UAC-109-2012
20.6 Basil Fernando, “SRI LANKA: The rise of the security
apparatus and the decline of the criminal justice system”,
AHRC, 27 June 2012, available online at
http://www.humanrights.asia/news/ahrc-news/AHRC-ART-
055-2012
20.7 Nilantha Ilangamuwa, “SRI LANKA: The role of journalists on
preventing torture”, AHRC, 27 June 2012, available online
at http://www.humanrights.asia/news/ahrc-news/AHRC-
ART-054-2012
20.8 Ranga Jayasuriya, “SRI LANKA: Period of detention in
custody”, Asian Human Rights Commission/
LAKBIMANEWS, 27 June 2012 (Mr. Aruna Roshantha),
available online at http://www.humanrights.asia/news/
forwarded-news/AHRC-FAT-019-2012
20.9 Asian Human Rights Commission/Net Working for Rights in
Sri Lanka, “SRI LANKA: Threats to Dr. Nirmal R. Devasiri
of FUTA is an another instance of suppression of dissent”,
25 June 2012 (Dr. Nirmal R. Devasiri), available online at
http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-
FPR-027-2012
20.10 AHRC, “SRI LANKA: Mundalama Police enjoy impunity
despite torturing and detaining a businessman in
fabricated charges”, 22 June 2012 (Mr. K. A. Somarathna),
available online at http://www.humanrights.asia/news/
urgent-appeals/AHRC-UAC-108-2012
20.11 AHRC, “SRI LANKA: Government rejects the Universality of
Human Rights”, 22 June 2012, available online at
http://www.humanrights.asia/news/ahrc-news/AHRC-STM-
127-2012
20.12 AHRC, “SRI LANKA: The role of the Defence Secretary in
paralyzing the criminal investigation system”, 20 June
2012, available online at http://www.humanrights.asia/
news/ahrc-news/AHRC-STM-125-2012
20.13 AHRC, “SRI LANKA: The Officer-In-Charge and police officers
of Chilaw Police Station trespassed and stole from an
innocent family and are pressuring the family against

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pressing charges”, 19 June 2012 (Mr. Warnakulasuriya
Sebastian Fernando), available online at
http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/AHRC-
UAC-105-2012
20.14 AHRC, “SRI LANKA: Attack which killed two attending JVP
meeting is a forewarning of another round of terror”, 19
June 2012, available online at
http://www.humanrights.asia/news/ahrc-news/AHRC-STM-
123-2012
20.15 AHRC, “SRI LANKA: Is the police spokesperson, SP Ajith
Rohana, living on the moon?”, 4 June 2012, available
online at http://www.humanrights.asia/news/ahrc-
news/AHRC-STM-119-2012
20.16 AHRC, “SRI LANKA: An innocent man has been detained
more than six months without being produced before any
court or charged”, 1 June 2012 (Mr. Jesuthasan Tennisan
Leon), available online at http://www.humanrights.asia/
news/urgent-appeals/AHRC-UAC-093-2012
20.17 AHRC, “SRI LANKA: AG's threat to file contempt of court
charges against Hirunika Premachandra amounts to
political manipulation of the judicial process”, 23 May 2012
(Bharata Lakshman Premachandra), available online at
http://www.humanrights.asia/news/ahrc-news/AHRC-STM-
108-2012
20.18 JC Weliamuna, “SRI LANKA: Discovering the White Van in a
troubled democracy”, AHRC, 26 April 2012, available
online at http://www.humanrights.asia/news/ahrc-
news/AHRC-ART-035-2012
20.19 AHRC, “SRI LANKA: Key witness of a fundamental rights
violation case is killed by the Wadduwa Police”, 18 April
2012 (Mr. Chandrasiri Dasanayaka), available online at
http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/AHRC-
UAC-064-2012
20.20 AHRC, “SRI LANKA: An innocent man has been detained for
almost four years on false terrorism charges”, 17 April
2012 (Mr. Thankshanamoorthy Selvakumar), available
online at http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-
appeals/AHRC-UAC-062-2012
20.21 AHRC, “SRI LANKA: Absence of political will to stop
abductions”, 12 April 2012, available online at
http://www.humanrights.asia/news/ahrc-news/AHRC-STM-
088-2012
20.22 AHRC/Lawyers for Democracy, “SRI LANKA: Lawyers for
Democracy (LfD) sees the series of abductions as the

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undisclosed state policy of the Government to suppress
dissent”, 10 April 2012, available online at
http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-
FST-024-2012
20.23 AHRC, “SRI LANKA: A sorry state of affairs -- illegal arrests
and detention”, 3 April 2012, available online at
http://www.humanrights.asia/news/ahrc-news/AHRC-STM-
078-2012
20.24 AHRC/BBC Sinhala, “SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka's sinister white
van abductions”, 15 March 2012, available online at
http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-
FAT-010-2012
20.25 AHRC/Lawyers for Democracy, “SRI LANKA: Lawyers Call for
an Immediate Halt to Ongoing Abductions”, 14 March
2012, available online at
http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-
FPR-010-2012
20.26 AHRC, “SRI LANKA: An elderly widower was tortured by the
Marawila Police and pressured to sell his property”, 1
March 2012 (Mr. JP Samson Kulatunga) , available online
at http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-
appeals/AHRC-UAC-038-2012
20.27 AHRC/Groundviews, “SRI LANKA: New wave of abductions
and dead bodies in Sri Lanka”, 27 February 2012,
available online at
http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-
FAT-007-2012
21 BBC News (NEWS)
21.1 Charles Haviland, “Parents of dead Sri Lankan Tamil prisoner
'denied last rites'”, BBC News, 9 July 2012, available
online at http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-18770072
21.2 BBC News, “Sri Lanka's Tamils face identity crisis”, 27 June
2012, available online at www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-
india-18261375
21.3 Charles Haviland, “Sri Lanka official has 'no idea' of reporter's
fate”, BBC News, 5 June 2012, available online at
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-18332987
21.4 Charles Haviland, “Former Sri Lanka Tamil Tiger rebels
'disappear'”, BBC News, 16 May 2012, available online at
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18085765
21.5 BBC News, “Sri Lanka Muslims decry radical Buddhist
mosque attack”, 23 April 2012, available online at
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-17816285

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21.6 Swaminathan Natarajan, “The hazardous journeys of Sri
Lankan Tamil refugees”, BBC News, 18 April 2012,
available online at www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-
16530218
21.7 BBC News, “Amnesty accuses Sri Lanka of 'post war
abuses'”, 13 March 2012, available online at
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17353223
22 UN Human Rights Council Written Statements (SUBMISSIONS
TO UN BODIES)
22.1 Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, “Sri Lanka:
Land grabbing and development-induced displacement”,
written statement of 22 February 2012,
A/HRC/19/NGO/64, available online at http://daccess-
ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/HRC/19/NGO/64
&Lang=E (direct download of PDF)
22.2 Front Line - the International Foundation for the Protection of
Human Rights Defenders, “The situation of human rights
defenders in Sri Lanka in 2011”, written statement of 28
February 2012, A/HRC/19/NGO/122, available online at
http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/
HRC/19/NGO/122&Lang=E (direct download of PDF)
22.3 International Educational Development, Inc., “The situation of
the Tamil people in Sri Lanka”, written statement of 11
June 2012, A/HRC/20/NGO/42, available online at
http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/
HRC/20/NGO/42&Lang=E (direct download of PDF)
22.4 International Movement against All Forms of Discrimination
and Racism (IMADR), “Enforced and involuntary
disappearance in Sri Lanka”, written statement of 28
February 2012, A/HRC/19/NGO/123, available online at
http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/
HRC/19/NGO/123&Lang=E (direct download of PDF)
22.5 International Movement against All Forms of Discrimination
and Racism (IMADR), “Making lawful assembly unlawful:
Police seeking judicial intervention to restrict lawful
assemblies in Sri Lanka”, written statement of 13 June
2012, A/HRC/20/NGO/55, available online at
http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/
HRC/20/NGO/55&Lang=E (direct download of PDF)
22.6 International Movement against All Forms of Discrimination
and Racism (IMADR), “Sri Lanka: Human rights abuses in
prison – assaults, torture and custodial death”, written
statement of 5 September 2012, A/HRC/21/NGO/69,
available online at http://daccess-dds-

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ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G12/164/67/PDF/G1216467.p
df?OpenElement (direct download of PDF)
23 UN BODY REPORTS: UN Human Rights Council/Working Group on
Universal Periodic Review, Summary prepared by the Office of
the High Commissioner for Human Rights in accordance with
paragraph 5 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution
16/21, 30 July 2012, available online at http://daccess-
ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/HRC/WG.6/14/LKA/3&L
ang=E (direct download of PDF)
24 ARTICLES: Amnesty International, “Sri Lanka: No real will to
account: Shortcomings in Sri Lanka’s National Plan of Action to
implement the recommendations of the LLRC”, 30 August 2012,
available online at http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/
ASA37/010/2012/en (or https://www.amnesty.org/download/
Documents/20000/asa370102012en.pdf, for direct download of
PDF)
25 SUBMISSIONS TO UN BODIES: Amnesty International, “Sri Lanka:
Statement delivered by Amnesty International to the UN Human
Rights Council, Nineteenth Session, 27 February – 23 March
2012”, 14 March 2012, available online at
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA37/006/2012/en (or
https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/20000/asa37006
2012en.pdf, for direct download of PDF)
26 SUBMISSIONS TO UN BODIES: Amnesty International, “Sri Lanka:
Reconciliation at a crossroads: Continuing impunity, arbitrary
detentions, torture and enforced disappearances: Amnesty
International Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review”, 1
April 2012, available online at
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA37/008/2012/en (or
https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/20000/asa37008
2012en.pdf, for direct download of PDF)
27 SUBMISSIONS TO UN BODIES: Amnesty International, “The Human
Rights Situation in Sri Lanka, June 2012: A statement for the
June Human Rights Council Session”, 13 June 2012, available
online at https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/ASA37/009/
2012/en/ (or https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/
20000/asa370092012en.pdf for direct download of PDF)
28 REPORTS: Amnesty International, “Sri Lanka: Locked away: Sri
Lanka's security detainees”, 13 March 2012 (front matter, pp. 5-
37, 44, endnotes), available online at http://files.amnesty.org/
archives/asa370032012eng.pdf (direct download of PDF)
29 ARTICLES: Amnesty International, “Sri Lanka: Man abducted days
before court hearing: Ramasamy Prabaharan”, 15 February
2012, available online at https://www.amnesty.org/en/

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documents/asa37/002/2012/en/ (or https://www.amnesty.org/
download/Documents/20000/asa370022012en.pdf for direct
download of PDF)

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