Contact Admin. Given censorship and intimidation many journalists have fled Sri Lanka. Several journalists have been murdered, perhaps the best-known of them being Lasantha Wickrematunge, Editor of the Sunday Leader , in Colombo Telegraph, quoted below https: EPDP sold Jaffna children: Abducted in Colombo in broad daylight on 7 May , there is no news of him.
This was discontinued by the present government and so its leader, Douglas Devananda, extorts even more funds to maintain his private army. By all accounts, the situation of women has worsened: Though the war is over and there is no threat whatsoever, the government maintains perhaps between , and , soldiers in the North and East. Most of these men are without their wives and families.
What is more, seeing all Tamils as former supporters of the Tamil Tigers, they are hostile and, worse, have contempt for them. On the other hand, there is a shortage of Tamil men, many having been killed; many having fled abroad as refugees; some in detention. But even those who are present are powerless to protect the women of the house against the army and the armed EPDP.
According to information given to the US Ambassador, soldiers kidnap and rape Tamil women. Or they work through the EPDP which, being Tamil, has access to Tamil families, and uses that to win trust or, failing, resort to coercion. I cite from the Colombo Telegraph report: Mr Ganesh stated that young women were forced to have sex with between five and ten soldiers a night.
Besides, it would be like a lamb complaining to wolves about the behaviour of wolves. It might be thought that the WikiLeaks information, though carried by Colombo Telegraph this month, is from a few years past. But going by reports received from family and friends, Christian priests in the area, volunteers and others, the situation is now much worse. You will appreciate that, particularly in a traditional society, where rape is concerned, families choose to remain silent; endure the catastrophe, cope with the pain and its consequences as best as they can.
