Tamil mother lodges complaint with Jaffna HRC over son’s abduction – VIDEO
April 15, 2016
A Tamil mother on Friday lodged a complaint with the Human Rights Commission (HRC) in Jaffna that his middle-aged son had been abducted on Sunday (April 10) at Thenmaradchchi in Jaffna by a group of armed men who came in a white-van.
Speaking to Ceylon News outside the HRC office in Jaffna, she has said that her son, Rajadurai Jeyanthan has been abducted by a group of armed men who had come in a white van, when he was at his home with his family at Nunavil South, Chavakachcheri.
According to the mother, the men in civvies have first to refused to reveal their identity and then claimed that they were from the Terrorism Investigation Department (TID).
“They checked the house, interrogated him and handcuffed him before taking him away. They were in civvies and were carrying weapons. They told us to come Ariyalai and then to Vavuniya. When we went to Vavuniya, we were told that he has been sent to Boosa detention camp,” she said.
“We came here (HRC) to file a complaint as we don’t know whether he is kept in Boosa or not,” the grieving mother said.
White van is a notorious mode of transport of “unidentified men” to carry out abductions during and after the war.
According to the mother, the abductors have neither given his family a note of acknowledgement nor explained the reason for the arrest. She said her son was formerly a member of LTTE member and went through the government rehabilitation program after the war.
Secretary of the Tamil National People’s Front, S. Gajendran who accompanied the mother to the HRC, said that the police at Chavakachcheri have refused to entertain a complaint from the family in this regard.
“A group of armed men in civvies have stormed into a house and abducted a person in white van. If the police have refused to accept this complaint, then it clearly shows that theye have fully aided and abetted this abduction,” he said, expressing fears that he may be subjected to torture.
“If anything happens to his life in the absence of an official note of acknowledgement of his arrest, those who abducted him will not be held accountable for it. This is a good example that the abduction and torture are going on even under the Maithripala administration and not just during the Rajapaksa regime,” he told Ceylon News.
An official at the Jaffna HRC confirmed that this is the third such complaint to have been received since the beginning of this month.
The latest incident has come barely a couple of weeks after the government troops on a tip off recovered a suicide jacket and explosives from a house also in Chavakachcheri.
The Ranil-Sirisena government has constantly been denying reports of white operations and abductions in the country.
