Two Jaffna University students have been abducted and tortured, allegedly by SLA military intelligence, in the last two weeks.
Vijayarajah Vijayarooban, a native of Kachchai in Kodikaamam, was abducted on April 13 at a private tuition centre near the A9 road, inside the SLA militarized HSZ in Chavakacheri town, where he was working as a part time teacher.
He was allegedly taken by SLA Military Intelligence stationed at Post Office Road in Chavakachchaeri, who were dressed in civil cloths and were driving a white van.
Vijayarooban was released on April 16 after severe torture for three days.
He was pushed out of a white van at around 11:00 a.m. near the place from which he had been abducted three days earlier.
The director of the private tuition centre had been abducted earlier and Vijayaroopan had been performing the duties of the abducted director, according to the family of the missing director, who lodged a separate complaint with the Jaffna office of the SLHRC.
Separately, another Arts Faculty student of Jaffna University, abducted in Jaffna city on April 9, was released the next night along a desolate roadside after severe torture.
Nagenthiram Rajaluxman, 25, told hospital authorities that he was waylaid outside his home and abducted by SLA military intelligence operatives travelling in a white van and later interrogated and tortured in a military camp before being released.
Rajaluxmanm, a resident of Naavalar Veethi, Ariyaalai, is a 3rd year art student of Jaffna University.
Another Jaffna University final year student was recently shot and killed in Chavakacheri hospital surroundings.
Separately, an appeal has been lodged with Sri Lanka's Attorney General to release Selvarajah Paheerathan, 26, another Jaffna University undergrad, who was arrested by the SLA eight months ago in a cordon and search operation in the premises of the Jaffna University and later handed over to the Jaffna Police.
Paheerathan has been detained since October last year under the PTA and has not been charged in courts.
