{"id":111626,"date":"2013-10-26T00:41:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T19:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=111626"},"modified":"2013-10-31T12:48:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T07:18:54","slug":"campaign-of-rape-and-torture-overshadows-sri-lankas-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/campaign-of-rape-and-torture-overshadows-sri-lankas-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign Of Rape And Torture Overshadows Sri Lanka\u2019s Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\">Robin Pagnamenta<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_111627\" style=\"width: 117px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/campaign-of-rape-and-torture-overshadows-sri-lankas-summit\/robin-pagnamenta\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111627\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111627\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111627\" title=\"Robin Pagnamenta\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Robin-Pagnamenta-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-111627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robin Pagnamenta<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After three days of torture at the hands of Sri Lanka\u2019s security forces, Thusi Srivastava was at breaking point.<\/p>\n<p>Stripped naked, beaten with iron bars and subjected to mock suffocations and drownings after her abduction in northern Sri Lanka, the Tamil detainee thought her condition could not get any worse.<\/p>\n<p>She was wrong. \u201cPhysically I was in very bad shape,\u201d said Thusi [not her real name], recalling her ordeal in February.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cBut the next day, two of my interrogators came back and raped me &#8211; to read more click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/news\/world\/asia\/article3903770.ece\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>*<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/public\/profile\/Robin-Pagnamenta\" target=\"_blank\">Robin Pagnamenta<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0South Asia Correspondent &#8211; The Times &#8211; UK<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":111627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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