The vehicle which abducted the students found in the Trincomalee army camp
Nov 21, 2015
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has able to find a wagon type vehicle in the Trincomalee army camp which was used to abduct and kill 28 students belong to the rich families for extortions in the Trincomalee and Colombo in 2010.
The Wattala police received a complaint in 2010 of an abduction of six students following a party of an international school student leaving to the UK for further education with the same vehicle of the students travelling after the party. The CID was able to find the said vehicle from the navy camp now. Following the abduction the said vehicle was used under a navy vehicle number plate for many years.
This abduction was carried out by a unit attached to the navy intelligence in order to demand extortions from the parents of the abducted students.
When the CID officers has gone to the navy camp to take the vehicle into custody the navy officers have obstructed. Following an explanation of the legal obligation to the navy commander the vehicle was taken into custody.
The main allegation of abducting and killing theese students is targeted to the former eastern province commander vice admiral Jayantha Kolambage. However the UN has already confirmed about a secret detention camp used for torture in the Trincomalee naval camp.
The UN committee who came to Sri Lanka recently in search of the enforced disappearance disclosed their visit to this secret torture camp situated in the Trincomalee navy camp to the media last Wednesday 18th.
Chief of the UN committee Bernard Duhaime said they got credible evidence that the abducted people were detained for a long time. They denied the claim made by the army that only 11 people were detained. They said when they consider the amount of rooms within it is clear that there were more people detained.
This abduction was carried out by a unit attached to the navy intelligence in order to demand extortions from the parents of the abducted students.
When the CID officers has gone to the navy camp to take the vehicle into custody the navy officers have obstructed. Following an explanation of the legal obligation to the navy commander the vehicle was taken into custody.
The main allegation of abducting and killing theese students is targeted to the former eastern province commander vice admiral Jayantha Kolambage. However the UN has already confirmed about a secret detention camp used for torture in the Trincomalee naval camp.
The UN committee who came to Sri Lanka recently in search of the enforced disappearance disclosed their visit to this secret torture camp situated in the Trincomalee navy camp to the media last Wednesday 18th.
Chief of the UN committee Bernard Duhaime said they got credible evidence that the abducted people were detained for a long time. They denied the claim made by the army that only 11 people were detained. They said when they consider the amount of rooms within it is clear that there were more people detained.
