Tamil Civilians Continue to Live in Fear
by Esan Satkunarajah, February 26, 2007
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In many of the cases of abduction and disappearance, the bodies were found decapitated by the abductors and thrown in public places to instill fear into the general Tamil civilians’ minds and terrorise them into submission.
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Ms. Louise Arbour
High Commissioner for Human Rights
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva
1211 Geneva 10,
Switzerland
Dear Madam Louise Arbour,
Re: Tamil civilians continue to live in fear as disappearances and
abductions increase
Two fifteen year old students, Poovathasan Yaseetharan and his
friend Kunasekaralingam Sivaroopan, both from 15 Mile Post Udupiddy in
Vadamaradchy, Jaffna, disappeared yesterday on the way to attend a
private tuition [tutoring session].
There have been numerous abductions, disappearances and extra-judicial
killings of Tamil civilians in the NorthEast of Sri Lanka taking
place in recent times and the number is increasing on a daily basis. The steady increase in these crimes is
being ignored by both the Sri Lankan governement and the international community at large.
In many of abductions and disappearances cases, bodies were found
decapitated by the abductors and thrown in public places to instill
fear into the general Tamil civilians’ minds and terrorise them into
submission.
The helpless feeling of the total Tamil population in the northeast of Sri Lanka is made worse by other forms of gross violations of
their human rights, such as killing, bombing, and starving them, along with aerial
attacks on schools and religious places by the state armed forces and
its paramilitary proxies. In this connection, please note the statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission.
We call on the international community to protect the human rights of
Tamil civilians by taking decisive actions against the current Sri
Lankan government without further delay.
Yours sincerely,
Esan Satkunarajah
Association for Prevention of State Terrorism (APST)
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