 www.tamileelamnews.com TNS Corner Jaffna - Total of 3 civilians have surrendered to the Jaffna Human Rights Commission (JHRC) within past 24 hours fearing for their safety and their lives as they continue to receive death threats from armed forces and aligned paramilitary armed men operating with Sri Lankan Security Forces(SF), according to an official from JHRC.
A 25-year old businessman from Anandavadali Road in Columbuththurai, Jaffna, 47-year old farmer and father of six children from Meesaalai in Thenmaraadchi, and a 41-year old father of four from Dutch Road in Chaavakachcheari, Thenmaraadchi, were surrendered to JHRC, according to an official from JHRC.
Thousands of civilians including scores of aid workers and journalists abducted and unlawfully killed in Sri Lanka and their bodies dumped in wells and road sides. The ever escalating violence in the troubled nation, nightmare tales and gory pictures are again emerging from the island’s war-battered north and east of Sri Lanka, says an aid group.
Hong Kong-based-Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urged that the Government of Sri Lanka favorably considers the assistance being offered by the international community, particularly in the form of a field based UN Human Rights Monitoring presence in Sri Lanka citing widespread rights abuses.
London-Based Amnesty International (AI) said, hundreds of people have reportedly been abducted by the Sri Lankan Security Forces (SF) or armed groups in areas in the north and east of Sri Lanka, as well as elsewhere in the country including the capital Colombo and urged the United Nation to address the right abuses in Sri Lanka.
The United States-Based the Human Rights Watch (HRW) cited, the rights abuses such as enforced mass abductions, mass disappearances, unlawful execution style summery killings, mass murders, tortures, rapes, destruction of personal, public and cultural properties, forceful displacements and unwillingness and inability of the Sri Lankan state to take control the worsening rights situation for the citizens of Sri Lanka are the reasons for their call for UN monitoring mission.
Number of UN Human Rights high ranking envoys including the UN Human Rights Commissioner Louise Arbour were visited to Sri Lanka, this year and called on the Sri Lankan government to probe all the human rights abuses against civilians and urged the government to consider an international rights monitoring mission which Sri Lanka adamantly and out rightly rejected challenging the world’s concerns on the deteriorating human rights situations in Sri Lanka.
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