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“Regarding disappearances, he said that there has been a long tradition of arrests and disappearances in Sri Lanka by people in civilian clothing. While ICRC has knowledge about a certain number of cases, most appear to be people abducted\/arrested by either Tamil auxiliary forces or local authorities, not under order from central authorities, but connected to local political circumstances. On the other hand, there appears to have been no pattern of systematic disappearances during the GSL’s screening of the population that fled the fighting.”<\/p>\n

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Outside the TMVP office in Tirukkovil – White van with newspaper in place of number plate and Jeevendran and Inayapaarathi \u2013 Picture taken from inside our van through the windscreen – Picture by Uvindu Kurukulasuriya<\/p><\/div>\n

The\u00a0Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span>\u00a0found the related leaked cable from the\u00a0WikiLeaks<\/a><\/span>\u00a0database. The \u201cConfidential\u201d cable discuses\u00a0what had happened on the ground during and since the conflict.\u00a0The cable was signed by the US Ambassador to Geneva\u00a0Clint Williamson<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on July 15, 2009.<\/p>\n

After a meeting with Jacque de Maio<\/a><\/span>, ICRC Head of Operations for South Asia on July 9, 2009, just two months after the war,the Ambassador wrote;”De Maio explained that ICRC has a fairly good network of people to whom family members report arrests\/disappearances. In the cases of those who seem to disappear during screening, most of them turn up within days, and were three to five times more likely to be found if they received a report within twenty-four hours of disappearance. He believed that many incidents were driven by the GSL view that all civilians coming out of the Vanni were presumed guilty by the government. ICRC has been visiting regularly 11,400 people arrested and interned in 10 camps as suspected LTTE fighters.”<\/p>\n

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Other related stories to this cable;<\/p>\n

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WikiLeaks: It\u2019s Not Genocide, Army Could Have Won The Battle With Higher Civilian And Less Army Casualties \u2013 ICRC To US Mission To UN<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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WikiLeaks: LTTE Stored Weapons At Hospitals \u2013 ICRC To US Mission To UN<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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