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 Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday withdrew her AIADMK MP from an all-party delegation set to visit Sri Lanka April 16-21.The team led by BJP's Sushma Swaraj is to inspect the rehabilitation of those displaced during the war against the Tamil Tigers that ended in May 2009.
She said the itinerary "gives importance to meeting and dining" with Sinhalese leaders and government officials and that the programme seemed to have been designed by Sri Lankan officials to create a positive image about them in India. Read More
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
Jaya continues to pile pressure on Sinhalese racist regime
Killer driver of white Van now known : when children of victims are in tears , can killers be allowed to enjoy new year?
| There is no option but to take just laws into the hands |
  (Lanka-e-News-11.April.2012, 11.55PM) It will not be out of place if we point out here that we have already reported on the four criminals of the notorious white van . Now we are furnishing full details of the driver of the white van. The individual in this photograph had been engaged in countless number of white van crimes.Name - Girambe Gedera Udeni Samrajeewa Karunaratne. National Identity card No. 690454793 V Date of Birth 1969-Feb. 14 Residence 545, Hurulunika wewa , Galenbindunu wewa Army residence No. 2 K 01454 Army position Corporal The Reg. No . of the murderous white van W P C C 8649 It is this criminal who was the driver of the white Van bearing this above noted Reg. number which transported the killer squad that tried to abduct Raveendra Udaya Shantha . the Kolonnawa local Council Mayor about a month ago – that is on the 10th of March. This ruthless murderer of the Forces has been given permission to roam anywhere away from the camp. This army corporal while performing duties of an army driver has been driving the criminal white van to unlawfully commit crimes of abduction and disappearances . Hence , he should compulsorily be taken into custody and interrogated. We have now passed the stage of patience and idly watching the abduction of law abiding citizens in our own midst and before our own eyes. We now urge the people to take the just laws into their hands against these criminals and those unjust elements promoting them , as there is no other remedy to eliminate lawlessness and curb crimes in the country. Lawyers are requested hereby to come forward to champion the cause of justice . When these abductions are raging in this country , they are only issuing a media announcement against it , and looking the other way. Even there , such an announcement is made only when a high profile person is a victim. What can we expect from the Lawyers who remain as idle spectators amusing themselves when a suspect brought to court is abducted in the white van while he is still in the court premises ? Why cannot the lawyers in the least take a photograph of the crime scene using their mobile phone which they so greedily use to rope in their clients ? What is the solace the relatives of the victims abducted at least one daily expect from a legal sphere abounding with Lawyers who don’t care two hoots even after the criminal white van intrudes into the court premises and commits illegal abduction ? Can the lawyers ease their conscience as legal sentinels by just picketing for a few hours over this? The opposition parties are no better . The most they do is hold a media briefing blabber something to justify their worthless existence. What the media says is repeated by them before the media. Meanwhile the MaRa regime is taking advantage of these weaknesses, and is going on without let or hindrance with its crimes of abductions and disappearances at least one victim a day. This criminal game of lawlessness has become a sport and play for the MaRa regime. We from the media therefore who had been watching and reporting on these and having no choice shall , as of today, as a first step campaign to urge the oppressed people to take the just laws into their hands to eradicate individuals and groups who are aiding and abetting the regime to enthrone lawlessness , so that brutal and bestial rulers who are enforcing jungle laws will finally be dethroned and chased into the jungles where they truly belong - among wolves , hyenas , serpents and beasts. How many people has this cruel driver (seen in this photograph ) abducted and caused to disappear ? Who are the victims? What areas are they from? When ? Shouldn’t this criminal who committed multiple crimes be apprehended and questioned? Can those grieved ones in the houses of the victims whom this ruthless beast of a criminal abducted /killed / made them disappear eat kiribath and celebrate the New year ? But these scoundrels and criminals who killed and abducted most inhumanly must be going to their homes in full glee with hands full of bonus payment (for killing and abducting) to eat New year kiribath . The most cruel irony of it all is this bonus has also been collected by the Govt. via taxing and burdening the living relatives of the dead victims. This is certainly not justice. While in the houses of the victims , it is tears filled bath (rice) for the New year , in the houses of the brutal criminals it is milk filled bath . This gross injustice in the country should end once and for all. We cannot tolerate this any longer. We cannot allow any group to fatten on the death and despair of others. In the circumstances , taking the just laws into the hands individually or collectively as an organized force is not injustice. |
Australian says he was tortured in Sri Lanka
Updated Speaking in Sydney on his return home, Kumar Gunaratnam claimed he was abducted at gunpoint by secret police in Colombo on Friday, assaulted, tortured and left to fear for his life.An Australian man says he was sexually tortured by security forces after being abducted in Sri Lanka.
He was released after the intervention of the Australian Government following a public appeal by his wife.
The Sri Lankan government has denied the kidnapping claims and says Mr Gunaratnam is a dangerous militant.
Mr Gunaratnam says he was about to launch a left-wing political party Sri Lankan officials want to silence.
He says about 15 government security personnel stormed into his house in Colombo around 4:30am on Friday.
The 42-year-old, who holds dual citizenship in Australia and Sri Lanka, claims he was held for about four days and moved around to different army bases around the capital.
"I confirm I was abducted by the Sri Lankan government forces [who] blind-folded me and tortured [me]," he said.
"This includes, I'm embarrassed to say, sexual torture. I was handcuffed and my ankles were bound during the whole period."
Mr Gunaratnam says he believes without the intervention of the Australian High Commission and the media pressure put on the Sri Lankan government, he would be not be alive.
"I have no doubt that if I didn't have the Australian Government's support, I would have been killed just like my brother and hundreds of other political activists and journalists have been killed," he said.
The Sri Lankan foreign ministry has put out a statement saying Mr Gunaratnam's abduction is a fabrication and he was thrown out of the country because he overstayed his visa for more than five months.
Abuse claims
Mr Gunaratnam says he was a member of the Marxist group People's Liberation Front (JVP) but is now no longer a part of the radical organisation.
"I was a former member of the JVP but we had a political debate inside the party and we formed a new party and that was the Frontline Socialist Party," he said.
Sri Lankan author and journalist Rowan Senadeera says Mr Gunaratnam was a well-known member of the JVP in the late 1980s when serious human rights violations occurred.
"During the reign of terror he was a part of the JVP for sure," Senadeera said.
"The JVP slowly came back to the mainstream. At that time I believe that he was not agreeing with their joining the democratic process.
"I don't think he has been a believer in democratic process under capitalist system and even now or then."
But Mr Gunaratnam rejects any suggestions he committed human rights abuses, but for the first time he did confirm he did operate under three different aliases.
When pressed about it he would not go into details.
"I would like to speak with you everything in detail later on because I was just in a trauma...[in] the last 48-72 hours."
Mr Gunaratnam says he has not ruled out returning to Sri Lanka to continue his political work.
He has been reunited with his wife and children.
Mysterious Abductions When Will They Stop?
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Mr. Gunaratnam is the leader of a breakaway faction of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). His radical splinter group, the Frontline Socialist Party (FSP), claimed that Mr. Gunaratnam and women's wing leader Dimuthu Atigala had been taken away by security authorities ahead of the party's formal launch on Monday. Mr. Gunaratnam was subsequently deported to Australia whereas Atigala was released and sent back to the party headquarters at Madiwela. 
The regular accounts of human rights violations and the rise in abductions and disappearances are a cause for concern. Between October last year and April this year, there has been a disturbing increase in the number of abductions, especially in and around Colombo. Twenty nine disappearances (including an attempted abduction) have been reported in the media between February and March this year. There have been fifteen in March and fourteen in February. This brings the total number of disappearances reported in the last six months to fifty six. Add the disappearances of Gunaratnam and Atigala, the total amounts to 58. Out of the 29 disappearances in February and March this year, 16 had occurred in the Colombo district while eight had been reported from the Northern Province and five from the North. The abductions in the North are said to be of ex-LTTE cadres who had been detained and released according to a list of abductions made available on the widely read Sri Lankan website, Groundviews.
Australians playing politics in Sri Lanka
by Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
April 12, 2012, Melbourne, Sri Lanka Guardian) When I first heard about the disappearance of an Australian of Sri Lankan origin (my son drew my attention to the news) I thought from the name that the person was a Tamil. It mattered to me whether he was or not – to identify with the natural forces that would influence the outcomes – for my own purposes. If I considered it to be a manifestation of a political issue, as opposed to an Administrative one, the depth at which I interpreted the events would be different. The depth is proportionate to my investment in the respective discipline. By the looks of it, this is a political matter in which case one needs to ask whether the person felt supported by Australians or Sri Lankans. Sri Lanka Guardian has published Mr. Gunaratnam’s statement "I have no doubt that if I didn't have the Australian government's support I would have been killed just like my brother and hundreds of other political activists and journalists have been killed,"
Those driven by subjective power would tend to attribute the blame for their pain and loss, to the nearest available person who seems to disagree with them. After the UN Resolution against Sri Lanka, every person of Sri Lankan origin, claiming global status and is active in contributing to post-war reconstruction and development, has the responsibility to produce outcomes that are objectively measurable. For example, if Mr. Gunaratnam claims that the Sri Lankan Government had abducted him and there is no objective evidence of it, then his statement has no validity in Administration and legal paths. It could of course warn / put fear into others like himself but that seems fine with the Sri Lankan Government. It works against Reconciliation – a stated reason for the recent UN Resolution.
To my mind, Mr. Gunaratnam was acting contrary to the UN Resolution and hence needs to be denied any assistance by the Australian Government that co-sponsored the UN Resolution. The Australian Government has the special responsibility to provide us with guidelines in regards to assistance in areas where the risk involved is assessable by the ordinary traveler to Sri Lanka. In a subjective system we keep directly monitoring subjectively, before outcomes are produced for external consumption. In an objective system we need to ‘wait’ until the individual produces her/his outcomes before we use the common rules to judge whether or not that person is entitled to assistance. In this instance, the matter appears to have been of some urgency due to apparent threat to the life of Mr. Gunaratnam. The question is - was the help rendered by the Australian High Commission in Sri Lanka within the guidelines of Accountability and Transparency that is required in Administration? If not, would the Australian Government be requiring reimbursement from Mr. Gunaratnam – the money equivalent of Australian Government’s status which those of us who provide Administrative and Humanitarian help in Sri Lanka have not been given a share of when working in Sri Lanka? In Democracy – anything ‘given’ or ‘taken’ needs to have an objectively measurable value. Hence ‘confidentiality’ of the subjective system has been replaced with ‘transparency’ in the objective system of democracy.
April 12, 2012, Melbourne, Sri Lanka Guardian) When I first heard about the disappearance of an Australian of Sri Lankan origin (my son drew my attention to the news) I thought from the name that the person was a Tamil. It mattered to me whether he was or not – to identify with the natural forces that would influence the outcomes – for my own purposes. If I considered it to be a manifestation of a political issue, as opposed to an Administrative one, the depth at which I interpreted the events would be different. The depth is proportionate to my investment in the respective discipline. By the looks of it, this is a political matter in which case one needs to ask whether the person felt supported by Australians or Sri Lankans. Sri Lanka Guardian has published Mr. Gunaratnam’s statement "I have no doubt that if I didn't have the Australian government's support I would have been killed just like my brother and hundreds of other political activists and journalists have been killed," I interpret this as Mr. Gunaratnam attributing credit to the Australian Government to work the system more effectively than himself. Hence, it is understandable that he would not be safe playing politics in Sri Lanka. Even though Mr. Gunaratnam has dual citizenship, he seems to not be able to work the combined system to protect himself. He is rather being ‘given’ the protection of the Australian Government – leading one to conclude that he is not yet a fully fledged independent Australian, able to work the Australian system naturally and independent of special attention of the Australian Government – thus requiring special allocation of resources. Mr. Gunaratnam’s work in Sri Lanka would not have directly benefited Australia because of its political nature . Administrative and Humanitarian Services would have. Not political work. Political work particular to one country should be kept separate from political work particular to another country. Otherwise we risk interfering in the internal management of another country. This is because Politics is driven by subjective power without conscious separation between different areas of ownership. Administration in a democracy is required to be driven by Objectivity and Transparency – so that we interpret the outcomes for our own purposes.
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| Premakumar Gunaratnam says he is certain his captors in Sri Lanka planned to kill him. Photo: Anthony Johnson SMH |
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| Grateful ... Premakumar Gunaratnam, who says he was kidnapped in Sri Lanka, with his wife, Champa, at their Dural home. Photo: Anthony Johnson |
I call on the Government of Australia to convert into objectively measurable input, the subjective assistance provided by the Government of Australia to Mr. Gunaratnam who acted as a Sri Lankan in Sri Lanka, and not as a dual citizen using the higher of the two standards, and recover this amount from Mr. Gunaratnam. The monetary value of the assistance provided was NOT free but that of the Public and accountable to the Public – even if only one member of the Public had deserved more and received less. That’s when the Natural Forces of Dharma / Righteousness would work with the Government of Australia and therefore to strengthen Australians through this issue.
In the aftermath of Geneva
By Izeth Hussain
The main focus of this article is on 13A, but I must first make some clarifications. In the course of the recent Parliamentary debate on the US Resolution more than one Opposition member claimed that the fate of Sudan which suffered the breakaway of South Sudan could befall Sri Lanka as well. The analogy is a totally misleading one. Sudan was never a single entity in the pre-British past. It was put together by the British for their administrative and other convenience without the slightest regard for ethnic and other factors, as part of the entirely arbitrary redrawing of the map of Africa by the Western imperialists in the nineteenth century. Sri Lanka, on the other hand, has always been known as a single entity right through history, under names such as Taprobane, Serendib, Zeilan, Sailan, Ceylon, and of course for most of the time as Lanka. Even the name Eelam designated the totality of the Island, not just the part claimed by Prabhakaran. A comparable case is the island of Cyprus, which was known as a single entity from ancient times. I suspect that that is an important part of the reason why the international community will not accept the division of Cyprus, even though the de facto breakup has lasted for almost forty years. Sri Lanka could break up. It will leave the rest of humanity with an uneasy conscience that an enormity has been committed.Read More...
Earthquake in Indian ocean: Felt even within SL – People panic fearing possible Tsunami -Power cuts; coastal railway service suspended
 (Lanka-e-News-11.April.2012, 11.55PM) Sri Lanka was among the countries which were deemed vulnerable to the Tsunami threat following the massive earthquake of 8.7 on the Richter scale which hit the Indian ocean very close to Indonesia .This earthquake which occurred at about 2.16 p.m. was felt not only in the areas of the coastal belt , but even in Colombo including Nugegoda and Ratmalana.The center for Pacific Tsunami stated that Tsunami waves were not triggered , but if they did , they would have affected Devundara at 4.09 p.m. , Trincomalee at 4.20 p.m , Colombo at 4.50 p.m. and Jaffna at 5.00 p.m. in SL ; and 28 countries including SL were facing the Tsunami threat . The SL disaster management center took immediate measures to announce to those residents in the areas in the aforementioned paragraph , and the people in the south and east coastal areas to move to a safe location. The people turned panicky as there was no time for them to reach safe locations. But after the time given was over , they were told by the disaster management center to remain in the safe locations for a further two hours . The Ceylon electricity Board decided to cut off power in the Eastern and southern districts. The train service along the coastal line was suspended and the Galle Road from Colombo to Galle was closed. The Galle –Colombo express Highway was opened to divert the Galle road traffic . Due to the emergency , all vehicles were allowed to use the express Highway free of charge. The health Ministry announced that all workers in hospitals along the coast shall report to work. The Forces were also told to be in alert along the coastal belt .Following the first earthquake , another earthquake of 8.6 on the Richter scale occurred in the vicinity of the Sumatra Island , Indonesia. This earthquake was felt in Colombo , Matara and several other districts , according to the residents of those areas. Later at about 6.30 p.m. the tsunami threats posed by the two earlier earthquakes to SL were dismissed . The meteorological Dept. announced that the people can get back to their abodes. |
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Sri Lanka: Genocide and Poor Toilet Training
Apr-10-2012 21:36Tim King Salem-News.com
Sri Lanka's Buddhist tormentors force Hindus and Christians to play the ultimate humiliation game.
 Jaffna Library dates back to 1933, is one of Asia's finest. |
(SALEM) - A terrible history of murdering journalists who dissent from the government's grace isn't evil enough for Sri Lanka's continual conflict against the Tamil population in Jaffna. Now the man presiding over the country's northern Tamil area, a war crime suspect, is going to transform the high technology section of the Jaffna Library into a toilet for Sinhalese visitors from the south.
 G. A. Chandrasiri as Governor |
Sources report that The Sri Lankan Governor for the Northern Province of Jaffna proposes the construction of a toilet to replace the Computer section on the second floor of the Jaffna Public library[1] .
It's pretty sad when a nation's entire military mission is based around ethnic cleansing. It is even sadder when you learn that the agents of death and state terrorism in Sri Lankan are Buddhists.
But this story isn't about the Genocide this religious government is responsible for, where Tamil Hindu and Christian people were slaughtered in a systematic, utterly cruel way.
It is about the post-war actions of this same Buddhist government, and if there is one underlying theme in this report it might be the question, how much are people really expected to take?
New Song 'Depression' - Graphic Truth of Sri Lanka Tamil Genocide- Song by Agron Belica, news article by Tim King Salem-News.com This is an extremely graphic... visual tour of the Tamil Genocide. These images allow one to grasp the enormous loss that the Tamil tragedy represents. |
By the summer of 2009, right under the world's nose, vast segments of a culture were annihilated, ground into pieces, children were hacked, shot and stabbed. There are horrible accounts of Tamil women and girls being raped. Resistance fighters with white flags were murdered by the government forces of Sri Lanka as they attempted to surrender to what they believed was an honorable military force.
Instead we learn of their plight; we discover the photos of a resistance leader's son who had been shot in the chest, just a 12-year old boy who had
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 G. A. Chandrasiri - SLA Major General |
Foreign Governor - G. A. Chandrasiri
But again, I digress; this story is about the problems that continue to spill out from this violent conflict. It is about the despicable humiliation of human beings by a retired Sri Lankan Army (SLA) Major General named G. A. Chandrasiri - the former Commander Security Forces Headquarters in Jaffna. He is now the civilian governor of this disputed region[2].
This is Tamil country, the one region that the Tamils called their own; the former breakaway state of Tamil Eelam, that was protected by the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) until their defeat in May 2009.
He has no real ties to the area, other than military conquest. Chandrasiri's history involves serving as a commander with Security Forces Headquarters in the northern part of this island nation during the final stages of this three-decade long Sri Lankan Civil War. It now appears as though he is existing to take steps of revenge... that is sure how it appears.
Appointed Governor of the region by Rajapaksa, he is free to do anything he wants and he knows Colombo will back his every move. This ultimately becomes an endorsement on a license to commit human rights violations. When a government remains oblivious to the obvious, inherent hazards of this behavior, it truly has crossed the border into madness.
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1981 Burning of Jaffna Library Almost a decade ago, before the slaughter of innocents and milants that raged from 2005 to 2009, Vasuki Nesiah wrote the article,Monumental history and the politics of memory:Public space and the Jaffna public library, which included the associated photo.The Jaffna public library was burned under state supervision in 1981 – the memory of that event burned into Tamil consciousness as an iconic marker of the physical and imaginative violence of state sponsored Sinhala majoritarianism. Today the rebuilding of the library is embroiled in a different kind of battle over memory and history; the scaffolding and reconstruction captured in the cover photograph by Dominic Sansoni represents how the memory of Tamil victimhood is itself under construction. Yet as Sansoni’s photograph suggests, the scaffolding gets assimilated into the clean lines and reconstructed façade of the rebuilt library (in fact at first glance I didn’t even notice the scaffolding), i.e., the construction of memory itself becomes naturalized into our narratives of the past. In that context, the controversy over the reopening of the library reminds us that memory is itself a field of contestation: Who ‘owns’ the memory of 1981 in the Tamil community – “heroes” and rulers or their victims and survivors? The burning of the library is a story about the Sri Lankan government’s racist and violent campaign to conquer public space in Jaffna. Perhaps the debate over the re-opening of the public library constitutes a reclaiming of public space from the reach of the LTTE? |
Mobs of Buddhist Book Burners
 After the tragic fires set by Sri Lanka Army in '81 |
Journalists In Politics: Gotabhaya Is The Cause Of Every Problem – Victor Ivan
April 10, 2012By Uvindu Kurukulasuriya -
Ravaya Editor Victor Ivan has stated that Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is the cause of every problem, according to a source close to Wilfred Wickramasinghe (Willa), a businessman and close confidant of both President Rajapaksa and Victor Ivan. Our source, who wishes to remain anonymous, said that Willa Wickramasinghe has told him that Victor Ivan is doing a fantastic job of canvassing on behalf of Mahinda Rajapaksa and Basil Rajapaksa, in a way no one else is able to do.
Willa - Victor - DEW
Ravaya Editor Victor Ivan has stated that Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is the cause of every problem, according to a source close to Wilfred Wickramasinghe (Willa), a businessman and close confidant of both President Rajapaksa and Victor Ivan. Our source, who wishes to remain anonymous, said that Willa Wickramasinghe has told him that Victor Ivan is doing a fantastic job of canvassing on behalf of Mahinda Rajapaksa and Basil Rajapaksa, in a way no one else is able to do.Victor was invited for dinner with senior Minister DEW Gunasekara by Willa Wickramasinghe at his house on April 3, and the dinner discussion was mainly about how close advisers of Mahinda are misleading him. According to Victor Ivan, the External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris was the main culprit. Ivan had said that President Mahinda Rajapaksa was not aware of the US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert Blake’s visit to Sri Lanka, or why he was coming. Blake had given a letter to be given to the President and G.L. Peiris had not passed on the letter. Apparently Blake and Mahinda Rajapaksa never met prior to the US backed resolution against Sri Lanka.
Victor Ivan has said that Mahinda Rajapaksa is kept ignorant purposely by people close to him. Victor’s big worry is that if a sufficient number of MPs crossover the government would collapse, and he is doing everything he can to prevent this. The suspicion is that most of the President’s close associates are not sincere. Neither G.L. Peiris nor President’s Secretary Lalith Weeratunge can be trusted.
When contacted, Victor Ivan admitted that the dinner took place, and Senior Minister DEW Gunasekara was also there he added. When asked if he has been lobbying disgruntled Ministers and MPs, he said his mission is for national consensus politics, and that he has been talking to TNA and UNP MPs too. He denied the claim that he said anything against the External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris. When asked whether he said Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is the cause of every problem for the regime, he did not deny it straightaway, but said that he disagrees with some of Gotabhaya’s actions while agreeing with others. Victor Ivan cut short the phone conversation saying there was heavy lightning in Colombo.
Since Victor Ivan divulged that senior Minister Dew Gunasekara was also at the dinner, Colombo Telegraph also contacted sources close to Gunasekara. According to them, Minister Gunasekara had never met Victor Ivan before, and the purpose of the meeting was to get to know about Mahinda’s views and concerns from Victor, as Mahinda divulges everything to Victor. They also confirmed the above dinner meeting and conversation did take place.
Australian claims Sri Lankan agents sexually tortured him
April 11, 2012
Leesha McKenny, Dylan Welch
'I would have been killed'' ... Premakumar Gunaratnam with his wife and children in a family photo taken last year. Photo: Kate Geraghty
THE Australian man abducted in Sri Lanka over the weekend has contradicted the claims of the Colombo government, claiming it abducted him, and were it not for Canberra's intervention he would have faced certain death.Premakumar Gunaratnam, a 42-year-old Sri Lankan left wing politician who moved to Australia in 2006, held a press conference at his house in Sydney's north this afternoon, after leaving Sri Lanka yesterday.
He said that he was handcuffed, blindfolded and physically and sexually tortured during his three day detention.
"I have no doubt that if I didn't have the Australian government's support I would have been killed just like my brother and hundreds of other political activists and journalists have been killed," Mr Gunaratnam said at his Dural home at about 2.30pm.
His claims will put pressure on the Sri Lankan government, who at first said they were unaware of Mr Gunaratnam's presence in their country, and once he was located stated categorically that they had played no role in his disappearance.
"The Sri Lankan authorities never arrested that person," the Sri Lankan High Commissioner in Canberra, Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe, told Fairfax media on Tuesday.
Disputing that contention, Mr Gunaratnam said: "I can confirm I was abducted by the Sri Lankan government forces, blindfolded and tortured. This includes, I am embarrassed to say, sexual torture."
He called on the international community to acknowledge what he says are ongoing human rights violations in Sri Lanka being commited by the govenrment of Mahinda Rajapaksa.
"If everyone ignores the human rights violations in Sri Lanka then the Rajapaksa regime will continue the dictatorial regime abducting and killing people who speak out," he said.
"The free-thinking world should take a stance against (these) gross human rights violations."
Comment is being sought from the Sri Lankan government.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/australian-claims-sri-lankan-agents-sexually-tortured-him-20120411-1wpzo.html#ixzz1rk8GuH4B
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