Sri Lanka: Two Young Men Surrenders to the JHRC

Jaffna – Two young men 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 young man has sought protection with the JHRC after SF soldiers confiscated his identification card and ordered him to report at the near by SF camp for further interrogation. The other man who is in his late 20's surrendered Monday, JHRC officials in Jaffna said.

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

The ever escalating violence in the troubled nation, nightmare tales and gory pictures are continuing without any end in sight for the island’s people of war-battered north and east of Sri Lanka, says an aid group.