Thajudeen – Not The First & Not The Last
By V.Kanthaiya –August 15, 2015
“He chained my handcuffs to a chair so I couldn’t move. Tried to remove my shalwar, I kept shouting and crying, but he was stronger than me. When he finished he went outside. A second official came to the room. He raped me too. Second official smoked cigarettes and then with that burned my breasts, my inner thighs and legs. Both men beat me. They bit my breast and my thighs. It was still dark when I was brought back to the police station the next day. The official who raped me first warned me not to tell anybody about this. They told me they would kill my husband. I started bleeding very heavily. I think I was pregnant prior to the rape and miscarried. “ – An account by a victim of sexual violence and torture by Sri Lanka Security Forces, We Will Teach You a Lesson, Sexual violence against Tamils by Sri Lankan Security Forces, Human Rights Watch, February 2013.[i]
They even cite the undisclosed sources to graphically illustrate the final moments of the ruggerite.
The Sri Lankan media is so much obsessed with unravelling details of the former ruggeriteWasim Thajudeen’s murder. They even cite the undisclosed sources to graphically illustrate the final moments of the ruggerite. As per the Sri Lankan popular English and Sinhala language based media, Thajudeen had been abducted by a vehicle belonged to Red Cross, but used by “Siriliya Saviya” a NGO run by Former first lady Ms.Shiranthi Rajapaksa. It is reported that his teeth and pelvic bones had been broken, his ribs had been fractured, his neck had been pierced with a sharp instrument and the muscles in his legs had been cut with a piece of broken glass. His body showed that he had been assaulted by blunt instrument.
Why the police department didn’t disclose this in 2012? Why didn’t it take legal action based on these findings? And now why they shamelessly tell us that there was a cover up? And why they have not taken any action against the officers who covered this up? Is this the only criminal case which had been “covered up” or any more cases meted out the same fate? If so, how many cases the department has re-opened for investigation? How long will it take to arrest the perpetrators? How long will it take those alleged perpetrators to get the bail? And will our legal system deliver the verdict with in our lifetime? And finally, will the perpetrators be punished or would be released citing lack of evidence? And once they are released, will they say the entire legal action is an international conspiracy and eat kiribath or they will simply have a “bottle party” to celebrate their “Nidaahasa”? And to whom should I ask this question? To the IGP? Defence Secretary? Prime Minister? Or the President of Yahapalanaya? Well! I have some more questions to ask and I feel it is better to ask them at the end of this article.
Suppose Wasim Thajudeen had been subjected to brutal torture at the hands of his assailants; my dear fellow Sri Lankans, he was not the first one and definitely not the last one to meet this agony.Read More
