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May 8 • 7 tweets • 8 min read
Pls see our report on #stf #lka which cited #sinhalese insiders from the force describing their involvement in whitevan abductions in Colombo & executions in the East. itjpsl.com/assets/STF-rep…
#STF should at v least be Leahy vetted by .@USEmbSL & ineligible for @UNPeacekeeping
& it's not just us - UN bodies reported on STF involvement in #torture as far back as 2002: (P30 of report)
IN 2015 UN investigation cited #stf in connection with disappearance & #torture & mentioned their close links to #tamil paramilitaries in the East of #srilanka
Not to mention UN spoke of #stf involvement in an emblematic case - #trinco5 students - which IIGEP investigated & ended up just getting witnesses out of country as process so dire & .@amnestysasia championed as a case. @ThyagiR
Actually (p34 itjpsl.com/assets/STF-rep…) #stf comes up in so many emblematic cases in #srilanka & also worth mentioning amazing work of .@pmillerinfo on their role in 80s. #lka
Amazing that #stf is not Leahy vetted as a unit tainted by #humanrights abuses its entire history - it should be now .@SenatorLeahy

Irresponsible that @UNPeacekeeping takes #stf to deploy in sensitive war zones without independent vetting & screening.
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Sep 8, 2021
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Our report on #torture & sexual violence by #srilankan police (including TID) & army - some of it in known police stations - in the last 2 years under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. #lka

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@UNHumanRights Press releases in English #tamil & #sinhala at above link.
@UNHumanRights In this report we draw the linkages to the past, examining how the security forces used similar tactics (& white vans) in 1987-90 against mainly #Sinhalese. Those who survived were called "returned prisoners" Drawing on old .@amnesty reports & the commissions .@iqbals37 sat on. https://itjpsl.com/assets/ITJP-Torture-report-2021-Sep-ENGLI
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Mar 10, 2021
Another ITJP infographic summarising the various information sources regarding estimates for the death toll in the 2009 war in #srilanka:

ENGLISH
itjpsl.com/assets/press/I…
#TAMIL
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#SINHALA
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#lka
Let’s look first at the UN contemporaneously collected data (Petrie report) - 54,715 casualties (including injured some of whom may not have survived) in just 4 months in a tiny area of land in #SriLanka - 7,737 of the names of dead were corroborated by 3 sources.
The UN contemporaneous data did not include the most devastating final weeks of the 2009 war - rough estimates for which below - but there was nobody able to count by then. #lka
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