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Sri Lanka: 2 People including a Student Surrenders to JHRC

May 2, 2008, 00:23

Jaffna - Total of 2 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 student from Brown Road in Kokkuvil, Jaffna, and a trader family man from Raamaavil, Kodikaamam in Thenmaraadchi were surrendered to JHRC, according to an official from JHRC.

Hundreds of civilians of all ages have surrendered to the JHRC this year fearing for their safety and their lives according to the civilian sources in Jaffna while thousands of people were abducted or disappeared or violently killed in this year alone in the North and East (N&E) of Sri Lanka.

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.