Sri Lanka: A Mother and her 9 year Old Daughter Surrenders to JHRC

Jaffna - A 44 year old mother and her 9 year old daughter 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.

JHRC officials took steps to place the woman and her daughter in the Kurunakar Rehabilitation Centre through Jaffna Magistrate Court as mother was subjected to sexual harassment when she happened to be alone at home, the sources added.

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.

Hong Kong-based-Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and number rights organizations 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 kept rejecting and challenging the world’s concerns on the deteriorating human rights situations in Sri Lanka, according to an activist of a rights group.