A Farmer Seek Protection with JHRC in Sri Lanka

Jaffna - A farmer had surrendered to the Jaffna Human Rights Commission (JHRC) as they he continued to receive death threats from paramilitary armed men operating with Sri Lankan Security Forces (SF), according to the civilian sources in Jaffna.

Meanwhile, two Tamil workers from Murungkanpiddi in Murungkan, Mannaar, were reported missing since last Wednesday, according to a complaint lodged Tuesday with the Citizens Committee in Mannaar by the relatives of the missing.

The victims, 52-year-old M.A. Sirajdeen, and 44-year-old Sebastian Sowri, 44, did not return to their village since they left their residences on 07 May, 2008, their relatives said.

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.

The Human Rights organizations 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.

In the ever worsening violence and human rights abuses in Sri Lanka, over 5, 800 people killed including 44 aid workers and 10 journalists, close to 500,000 people internally displaced (IDP) while over thousands people were abducted and hundreds are missing within past twenty one months.