{"id":174251,"date":"2017-02-23T14:07:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T08:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=174251"},"modified":"2017-02-24T00:11:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:41:05","slug":"mr-slams-cbk-for-revealing-army-sexual-abuse-against-tamil-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mr-slams-cbk-for-revealing-army-sexual-abuse-against-tamil-women\/","title":{"rendered":"MR Slams CBK For Revealing Army Sexual Abuse Against Tamil Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President and Kurunegala district MP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=13&amp;y=5\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/a> has condemned former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Chandrika+Kumaratunga&amp;x=14&amp;y=7\">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_60156\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mahinda_Rajapaksa4_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60156\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mahinda_Rajapaksa4_1-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mahinda_Rajapaksa4_1-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mahinda_Rajapaksa4_1.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rajapaksa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Issuing a statement today Rajapaksa said: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/army-takes-on-cbk-over-sexual-abuse-allegations\/\">the\u00a0statement made by Mrs Chandrika Kumaratunga to foreign correspondents<\/a> in Colombo last week to the effect that war widows in Sri Lanka now face \u2018widespread\u2019 sexual exploitation by members of the army among others, is a matter of grave concern. The rape and sexual exploitation of women in the war zone both during and after the war was one of the main unsubstantiated accusations made by two irregularly set up investigations against Sri Lanka within the UN system \u2013 the Darusman report of 31 March 2011 and the Navi Pillai\/Zeid Al Hussein report of 16 September 2015. The latter report had a whole chapter of about ten pages devoted to the subject of rape and sexual exploitation. Now with days to go for the 34th\u00a0Sessions of the UN Human Rights Council, a former President of Sri Lanka and a former Commander in Chief of our armed forces says that our armed forces are sexually exploiting war widows in the north.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we have here is a former President of Sri Lanka and a former Commander in Chief of our armed forces echoing the accusations made by our enemies in what is obviously a deliberate attempt to vilify our armed forces on the eve of the UNHRC meeting. Mrs Kumaratunga holds the position of head of the Office for National Unity and Reconciliation (ONUR) which functions under the Presidential Secretariat and the statements she makes goes to the world as the official position of the Sri Lankan government. The Sri Lanka Army\u2019s statement rebutting Mrs Kumaratunga\u2019s accusations does not carry any weight. When a former President and commander in chief makes such a statement the person to respond should be the present President and the Commander in Chief. As a former President and Commander in Chief myself, I call upon the President to publicly condemn the statement made by Mrs Kumaratunga. The government should also seriously consider whether Mrs Kumaratunga is fit to be the head of ONUR as she is using that position to bring disrepute upon the armed forces of Sri Lanka.&#8221; Mahinda Rajapaksa further said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itjpsl.com\/assets\/Part-1-ITJP-Public-Submission-to-CEDAW-2017.pdf\">submitting a\u00a0report<\/a> to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on Monday, the International Truth and Justice Project (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=ITJP&amp;x=9&amp;y=4\">ITJP<\/a>) has exposed shocking details of\u00a0sexual exploitation by the army against Tamil women in the former war torn areas. The report accused the Sri Lanka military for holding women as sex slaves in rape camps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":60156,"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-174251","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MR Slams CBK For Revealing Army Sexual Abuse Against Tamil Women - 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\/mr-slams-cbk-for-revealing-army-sexual-abuse-against-tamil-women\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MR Slams CBK For Revealing Army Sexual Abuse Against Tamil Women - 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