New UK immigration report says #srilanka continues to operate an extensive intelligence gathering operation in the UK, monitoring protests, surveilling and unencrypted social media. #lka https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/
Also for all those who said branding wasn't a thing & alleged the poor old victims actually paid someone to burn them - the UK Home Office now says "injuries which are self-inflicted by proxy are likely to be extremely rare". https://itjpsl.com/assets/In-their-own-words-2017.pdf
And according to Robert Knox the burning with hot irons goes back to 1641:
Amnesty was reporting on burn marks on the chest of victims in 1989. https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/200000/asa3702119
And again in 1997 - burning with heated metal rods: https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/144000/asa3701019
& in 2009 in the @UNHumanRights OISL report more branding:
@UNHumanRights .@paisleydodds in 2017 - branding yet again: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/men-report-rape-to

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19 Jun
As we come up to UN #victimsoftorture day (26 June) let's recall the #srilanka security forces' 'White Vans' (synonymous with abduction & #torture - & sometimes disappearance) date back to the JVP era. They don't really stop & start, depending on the government in power - alas.
In 1989 an .@amnesty report said "in a typical case, plainclothes armed men arrived at the victims' home at night, travelling in Pajero keeps or Hiace vans...usually they gave no explanation for taking away the victim..."

amnesty.org/download/Docum… https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/200000/asa3702119
@amnesty President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said in 2019: "May be our intelligence agencies used Hi Ace vans which are white. I did not introduce it. It happened under all the previous Governments".

#whitevans

dailymirror.lk/article/How-ca… https://www.dailymirror.lk/article/How-can-there-be-freedom-
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2 Jun
Landmark UK immigration case slams lead agency in Reparation process in #srilanka @IOMSriLanka 4 lack of impartiality. IOM reportedly said allegations of discrimination against #tamils were just 'put forward to serve their own ends' Even Home Office called this "quite stark"! https://www.doughtystreet.c...https://www.doughtystreet.c...
@IOMSriLanka This is what the excellent ICJ 2010 Beyond Constraints report on 'rehabilitation' had to say regarding the risks of .@IOMSriLanka being involved in profiling inmates - noting thousands were arbitrarily detained in these military run camps. Image
@IOMSriLanka A/HRC/39/45/Add.2
Rehabilitation - The UN working group on arbitrary detention in 2018 called for apology and compensation. It never happened. Image
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