{"id":102713,"date":"2013-08-30T00:05:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=102713"},"modified":"2013-09-03T19:27:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T13:57:29","slug":"tamils-who-met-un-rights-chief-threatened-in-sri-lanka-rudrakumaran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tamils-who-met-un-rights-chief-threatened-in-sri-lanka-rudrakumaran\/","title":{"rendered":"Pillay Urges To Protect Tamils She Met: &#8216;Tamils Who Met UN Rights Chief Threatened In Sri Lanka&#8217; &#8211; Rudrakumaran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an urgent appeal to the UN High-Commissioner for Human Rights <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Navi+Pillay&amp;x=5&amp;y=4\">Navi Pillay<\/a><\/span>, the Prime-Minister of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE), <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Visuvanathan+Rudrakumaran&amp;x=9&amp;y=6\">Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran<\/a><\/span> , urged her to ensure that those Tamils who met her in the NorthEast of the island are protected from harassment and abuse by the Sri Lankan Security forces and intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_67382\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/two-state-solution-eminently-compatible-with-interests-of-tamil-and-sinhala-people\/visuvanathan-rudrakumaran-colombo-telegraph\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67382\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67382\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67382\" title=\"Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran Colombo Telegraph\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Visuvanathan-Rudrakumaran-Colombo-Telegraph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PM - TGTE - Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to BBC (Tamil Service), those who met the UN High-Commissioner Pillai have been threatened.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally BBC reports that the military who were kept <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/after-navi-troops-are-back-in-the-north\/\">inside the camps during her trip were out in the streets and have re-established their check points<\/a><\/span>, after the High-Commissioner left Tamil areas. The checkpoint at Elephant-pass in the A9 road, which was closed down during her stay have also been reopened after she left.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of mothers of the disappeared held peaceful rally showing the pictures of their loved ones who went missing after security forces abducted them or surrendered to the security forces. Some of these mothers and relatives of the disappeared met High-Commissioner Pillay and urged her to find their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is those who met High-Commissioner Pillay who are being threatened by the intelligence services and the security forces\u201d said Rudrakumaran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe strongly urge High-Commissioner Pillay to take necessary steps to ensure the safety of those Tamil whom she met. These people are extremely vulnerable and need protection\u201d appealed Rudrakumaran.<\/p>\n<p>UN High-Commissioner Pillai visited Northern town of Jaffna and \u201cMullivalkal\u201d where the mass killing of Tamils took place during the final months of the war in May 2009. It is in these places she met families of those directly affected by the Sri Lankan Security Force abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":67382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pillay Urges To Protect Tamils She Met: &#039;Tamils Who Met UN Rights Chief Threatened In Sri Lanka&#039; - Rudrakumaran - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tamils-who-met-un-rights-chief-threatened-in-sri-lanka-rudrakumaran\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pillay Urges To Protect Tamils She Met: &#039;Tamils Who Met UN Rights Chief Threatened In Sri Lanka&#039; - 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