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Abeysekera: Sri Lankan intelligence has always been extremely good at torture

Sharmini Peries speaks to Sunila Abeysekera award-winning human rights defender and the Executive Director of INFORM, an organization working to spread the word on Sri Lankan human rights violations. The speak about the history of the ongoing torture allegations in Sri Lanka and the so-called "internment camps" where roughly 300,000 refugees of the recent conflict linger. Abeysekera says, "Forget the torture; just overcrowding, lack of access to medical attention, and then including on top of that the beatings and the waterboarding. You know, you name it, we hear stories about it."

Bio

Sunila Abeysekera is the Executive Director of INFORM, an organization working to inform the world about human rights violations in Sri Lanka. The major themes of Sunila Abeysekera's work include issues of equality and difference in understanding women's human rights, problems of re-conceptualising the nation-state and principles of good governance from a feminist perspective; problems of representation of women in art and culture; and feminist film criticism. In 1998, Abeysekera was honoured by the United Nations for her contribution to the protection and promotion of human rights along with Jimmy Carter.

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[ramananarjun]

y dont we get educated person like her as a sri lankan president?

[lipoicacid]

Sri Lanka must not be doing what the world bankers asked them to do.UN will invade soon.Have fun =D

[Mahasohonbrigade1]

sunila is patta wesaweee.

pattaweesi, kari weesa belli.

thota henagahanawa me boruwalata.

kari huthti.

[babanisgura]

initially she was a JVP rebel in 1971

[Tharakaguru]

This lady Sunila having complex personal issues with her motherland from the childhoods, due to those she hate her own nationals and try get the revenge by doing whatever.

Further she earn by doing that, unlike other srilankans she can live in America, get paid in dollars and enjoy all the benefits.

In Sri Lanka there was a terrorist issue and now we the country has defeated it, here all the Tamils live peacefully now.

[amarab872]

The government has full responsibility to protect Tamil civilians, part of it is to remove the LTTE from the population. Hopefully it should be done humanly. The president has a good reputation in this regard, he was one of the few people stood up against the right wing UNP, when the UNP was destroying JVP members. So let us give the benefit of the doubt to Mahinda to do the right thing.