- Activists warn of lawlessness and social decadence; politicians among main culprits
Sunday, August 18, 2013
With a woman being raped every 90 minutes in Sri Lanka, women’s rights activists and academics are expressing serious concern over the rise in grave sex crimes – a disturbing trend that puts the lives of local and even foreign women here on high risk. Their concern came in the wake of several brutal rape cases in recent weeks.
In one of the brutal sex crimes, a 38-year-old mother of three from Pooneryn, Kilinochchi was raped last week by two unidentified men while she was on her way to cut palmyrah leaves in a nearby garden. She was rushed to the Pooneryn Hospital and later transferred to Jaffna Teaching Hospital due to severe internal injuries. The crime is being investigated by the Children and Women’s Bureau of the Jaffna police.