(Lanka-e-News -28.Nov.2011,11.50P.M.) A group of 35 prison officers of the Anuradhapura prison had arrived at about 2.30 p.m. where the LTTE suspects are held in custody , and mercilessly assaulted the suspects with complete impunity .
The assailants have suddenly stormed into the wards where the suspects are and attacked yelling out ‘ Is it not today your great Lokka’s (chief) commemoration day’. The victims have also been forced out to the open ground despite the heavy rains. The 65 suspects had then been stripped naked , made to kneel down and brutally assaulted.
After assaulting the suspects for about half an hour in the rain, they have been taken them back to the wards and locked up. These officers have also set fire to the clothes and belongings of the victims . A majority of the prison officers had been under the influence of liquor when they were behaving most barbarically and ruthlessly .
Officers of other prisons who were bitterly resentful against this unlawful and uncivilized conduct had passed the information to ‘We are Sri Lankans’ Organization . Udul Premaratne of ‘We are Sri Lankans’ organization stated that his Organization and a team of Lawyers are scheduled to visit Anuradhapura prison to meet the prisoners who suffered from the attack .
