Unidentified Armed Men Abducts a Family Man in Eastern Sri Lanka

Ampaarai - A 27 year old family man had been abducted in Ampaarai today by the unidentified armed men who have arrived in the white van.

On Tuesday, Mr. Velmuruku, a victim of chronic asthma, was abducted near the bus stand in Akkaraippattu around 6:45 a.m. while he was on his way to work.

Tthousands 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.

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.