{"id":174133,"date":"2017-02-19T18:59:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T13:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=174133"},"modified":"2017-02-24T00:10:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:40:34","slug":"army-takes-on-cbk-over-sexual-abuse-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/army-takes-on-cbk-over-sexual-abuse-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Takes On CBK Over Sexual Abuse Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Army has categorically refuted the statement made by former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Chandrika+Kumaratunga&amp;x=3&amp;y=8\">Chandrika Kumaratunga<\/a> over her allegations that there was widespread sexual exploitation by the army against Tamil women in the former war torn areas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_173961\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Chandrika-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173961\" class=\" wp-image-173961\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Chandrika-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Chandrika-.jpg 308w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Chandrika--150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Chandrika--300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Chandrika--50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-173961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chandrika<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a statement, the Army Headquarters said that it noted with \u2018dismay\u2019 on the utterance made by Kumaratunga, who is also the head of the Office for National Unity and Reconciliation. \u201cThe Army categorically denies the same as a baseless allegation,\u201d the statement said. The army has also warned that such \u2018baseless\u2019 assertions will only jeopardize the reconciliation process. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Last week, Kumaratunga said that Tamil women who survived the war were facing widespread sexual exploitation by the army, and others. \u201cThere is a lot of sexual abuse still going on by officials, even Tamil officials and even at lower levels, the grama sevakas (village officials),\u201d she told Sri Lanka\u2019s Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Association. \u201cEven to sign a document, they abuse the women and of course some people in the (armed) forces\u201d continue to commit sexual abuse, she said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, the Army pointed out that in 2010, civil administration was firmly established in the North and the Army withdrew from all forms of civil administration. Since then, the Army has not been involved in administration concerning civilians, and the question of sexual exploitation and abuses during the said process does not hence arise. \u201cRegrettably, the author of this statement has made unsubstantiated and baseless assertions without specifying any incident of sexual exploitation or abuse,\u201d the statement said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe Army wishes to place on record that it has a Zero Tolerance Policy on sexual abuses as evidenced in Premawathi Manamperi case in 1971, Krishanthi Kumaraswamy case and Rajini Vellaydunpillai case that took place during the period 1995-2005. In all these instances, the Army fully cooperated with the civil court cases against the accused who were on trial, resulting in death penalty,\u201d the statement said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The statement also added that the Army always takes stern action on Army personnel against whom ex facie cases have been and discharged summarily from the Army despite acquittal\/pending action in civil courts. \u201cIt shall continue to pursue this policy,\u201d the statement added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":173961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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