SLA abducts 76 people from IDP detention camps

by admin
Apr 14, 2009
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers forcibly took away 76 Tamils from two detention camps in Jaffna district where civilians fleeing war in Vanni were held, according to local sources.
 
On Saturday April 4 and Sunday April 5, the SLA soldiers took away the 65 detainees to the SLA Special Rehabilitation Camp (SRC) in Thellippalai claiming they were involved in terrorist activities.
 
SLA soldiers had forced the family members of the 65 detainees to sign documents that said that the detainees were being taken to the SLA Thellippalai SRC on their own wish, local NGO sources said.

27 detainees from SLA detention centre in Mirusuvil Roaman Catholic Church premises, 9 from Kodikaamam Government Tamil Mixed School (GTMS) detention centre and 29 from Koappaay Teachers’ Training College hostel detention centre were taken away by the soldiers. Most of the detainees taken away are students, they added.

Also, on Sunday April 5, SLA soldiers forcibly took away eleven students held along with their parents in the SLA detention camp in Koappaay Teacher Training College hostel, according to Education officials who visited the detention centre Monday, April 6.
 
Some of the students forcibly taken away by SLA soldiers are to sit for the forthcoming GCE A/L examinations.

The other students in Koaapaay detention centre rejected the educational materials given to them by the Education officials.

The parents of the students are angry and frustrated that the government authorities had not shown any concern for their children being forcibly taken away by SLA soldiers.

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