Real News: The disappearing act in Sri Lanka | Tamil Genocide Podcast

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Jun 13, 2009
Abeysekera: Sri Lankan intelligence has always been extremely good at torture

⁣https://www.bbc.com/sinhala/ne....ws/story/2009/06/090

⁣Sharmini Peries speaks to Sunila Abeysekera award-winning human rights defender and the Executive Director of INFORM, an organization working to spread the word on Sri Lankan human rights violations. The speak about the history of the ongoing torture allegations in Sri Lanka and the so-called "internment camps" where roughly 300,000 refugees of the recent conflict linger. Abeysekera says, "Forget the torture; just overcrowding, lack of access to medical attention, and then including on top of that the beatings and the waterboarding. You know, you name it, we hear stories about it.