{"id":75135,"date":"2013-02-26T10:01:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T10:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=75135"},"modified":"2013-02-28T15:56:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T15:56:39","slug":"sri-lanka-security-forces-rape-torture-tamil-detainees-hrw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-security-forces-rape-torture-tamil-detainees-hrw\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Security Forces Rape, Torture Tamil Detainees &#8211; HRW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sri Lanka&#8217;s security forces have used rape to torture and extract confessions from suspected Tamil separatists almost four years after the country&#8217;s civil war ended, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Tuesday, the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/02\/26\/us-srilanka-rape-idUSBRE91P08G20130226\">Reuters<\/a><\/span>\u00a0reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According\u00a0to the \u00a0Reuters,\u00a0The rights group documented 75 cases of predominately Tamil men and women who said they were held in Sri Lankan detention centres and repeatedly raped and sexually abused by the military, police and intelligence officials.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":58809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1],"tags":[6944,6945],"class_list":["post-75135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","tag-sri-lanka-security-forces-rape","tag-sri-lankan-army-rape"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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