By Iqbal Athas | CNN
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Saudi Arabian authorities could not be reached immediately for verification. No further details were available.
The two suspects have not been named.
Doctors at a Sri Lankan hospital operated for three hours Friday to remove 18 nails and metal particles allegedly hammered into the arms, legs and forehead of a maid by her Saudi employer.
Dr. Kamal Weeratunga said the surgical team in the southern town of Kamburupitiya pulled nails ranging from about 1 to 3 inches from Lahadapurage Daneris Ariyawathie's body. He said doctors have not yet removed four small metal particles embedded in her muscles.
"She is under heavy antibiotics but in a stable condition," Weeratunga said.
Sri Lankan officials, meanwhile, met with Saudi diplomats in Colombo to urge an investigation into the incident.
"It was cruel treatment, which should be roundly condemned," said L.K. Ruhunuge of the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment.
He said the Sri Lanka government has forwarded to Saudi authorities a detailed report on the incident, including statements from Ariyawathie.
Ariyawathie left Sri Lanka on March 25 to work as a housemaid in Riyadh after the bureau registered her as a person obtaining a job from an officially recognized job agency.
She was held down by her employer's wife while the employer hammered the heated nails, Ruhunuge told CNN. She apparently had complained to the couple that she was being overworked, Ruhunuge said.
The nails were hammered into her arms and legs while one was on her forehead, he said.
"Most of the wounds are superficial but five to 10 are somewhat deep," said Dr. Prabath Gajadeera of the Base Hospital. "Luckily, none of the organs is affected. Only nerves and blood vessels are affected."
Ariyawathie, 49, is a mother of two children who were opposed to their mother's journey to Saudi Arabia for work.
Several countries across the Middle East and Asia host significant numbers of migrant domestic workers, ranging from 196,000 in Singapore to about 1.5 million in Saudi Arabia, according to a report published earlier this year by Human Rights Watch.
Many of the domestic workers are poor Asian women from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, the Philippines and Nepal. Widespread abuse has been documented by global human rights groups.
Common complaints include unpaid wages, long working hours with no time for rest and heavy debt burdens from exorbitant recruitment fees, said the Human Rights Watch report.
Isolation and forced confinement contribute to psychological and physical abuse, sexual violence, forced labor, and trafficking, the report said. The abuse often goes unchecked because of a lack of government regulation and protective laws.
Ruhunuge said the registration of the local job agency that placed Ariyawathie has been cancelled.
"We have also asked [them] to pay compensation to the victim," he added. "We want to bring those responsible for justice. We are doing our best in this regard," he said.
He said his office was ready to accompany Ariyawathie to Saudi Arabia to testify if a case is brought against her former employers.
Ariyawathie's dream was to one day return to Sri Lanka and build a house with the money she saved.
"We are looking at the possibility of helping her to do this," Ruhunuge said.
Karu Jayasuriya, deputy leader of the main opposition United National Party, visited Ariyawathie in the hospital and said he was appalled.
"We want the government to raise this issue at the highest levels with the Saudi government. We cannot imagine that such crude and uncivilized things are happening to our workers," he said.
© CNN
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Arrests made in maid's nail torture, Sri Lankan officials say
Monday, August 30, 2010
Spotlight on Jaffna as Nirupama visits Lanka
By Sutirtho Patranobis | Hindustan Times
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On her way back, Rao would be visiting Kilinochchi, where the administrative headquarters of the Tamil Tigers was located, and Mullaitivu, once the rebels’ military nerve centre. It was near Mullaitivu, on the north-east coast where the final battle between the LTTE and government troops was fought. Her visit would be rounded of witha trip to the east coast town of Trincomalee.
Rao’s visit — to be followed by foreign minister SM Krishna’s Sri Lanka visit in September — to Jaffna and her interaction with non-government actors is being seen as India’s way of reaching out to the community, which has had close, and ancient, links with South India.
India’s non-interference in the final stages of the civil conflict, when the LTTE was surrounded and finally decimated by the army, was interpreted by many in the north as a betrayal. Former Indian envoy to Lanka, Rao’s visit is an attempt to change that view and send across the message that India was against the LTTE but will never abandon the Tamil civilian population.
Accompanied by a team of Indian diplomats, Rao would take stock of the rehabilitation of the 300,000 displaced Tamils. She would also review development projects India is funding in northern districts.
© Hindustan Times
Monday, August 30, 2010
Different approach to Tamil refugees needed
Watch part 2 & part 3 of the interview
By Seth Klein | Times Colonist
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Like a couple of the Tamil women who just arrived, my mom was pregnant with me. My parents did not seek advance permission from the Canadian government to immigrate. They did not fill out any paperwork before arriving. And they could no more seek permission to leave from their home government than these Tamils could, for what they were doing was, as far as the U.S. was concerned, illegal and would result in my father's arrest.
Of course, that's the thing about being an asylum-seeker -- you don't get into a queue. When you've got to go, you've got to go. My folks didn't even know Montreal, where they landed, was a predominantly French-speaking city.
So they just showed up. The difference, however, was that, in those days, they got landed immigrant status in 20 minutes at the airport. Over the course of the Vietnam War, about 100,000 American war resisters came to Canada (many with less formal education than my folks and thus unlikely to score particularly well under today's immigration point system).
Among the common reactions to the arrival of the MV Sun Sea is the proposition that Canada's allegedly lax immigration laws make us a global sucker -- a target for many of the world's migrants. This is an absurd notion.
World conflicts, environmental disasters and a global economic system that keeps billions impoverished has resulted in millions upon millions of refugees and displaced people. In Pakistan alone, the current flooding has produced upwards of 14 million internally displaced people. Globally, according to the UN, there are over
43 million "forcibly displaced people," of which about 15 million are refugees.
The vast majority of these people are not being absorbed by wealthy countries, but rather internally or by neighbouring poor countries -- the places least able to afford the costs and with the bleakest economic prospects.
The number of refugees accepted by Canada has declined in recent years, and last year we accepted fewer than 20,000 -- just over 0.1 per cent of global refugees. Surely when a few hundred people arrive on our shores, we can afford to treat these people with respect and grant them due process.
The real and much more significant Canadian immigration story of recent years (at least numerically) isn't about refugees. It's about the explosion in temporary foreign workers. The number of temporary foreign workers coming into Canada each year now exceeds 200,000 and surpasses the number of immigrants.
But the Harper government hasn't been sounding the alarm about this. On the contrary, the federal government has been promoting and facilitating the massive growth in this category of migrants.
Why? Because unlike regular immigrants and refugees, these workers are being specifically requested by employers, their indentured status makes them unable to exercise key employment rights and leaves them highly vulnerable to exploitation and unsafe conditions and they are unable to make the same claims to the social and economic rights that Canadians take for granted.
© Times Colonist
Monday, August 30, 2010
Sri Lanka cabinet backs change for president
Agence France-Presse
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Rajapakse, who oversaw the defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels last year after decades of civil war, has a firm grip on power and has been criticised for crushing dissent and opposition media.
The cabinet approved a proposal to remove the two-term limit for presidents, which would mean Rajapakse could stand again when elections are scheduled in November 2016.
"The cabinet backed a move to amend the constitution," an official at the president's office said, declining to be named.
Rajapakse came to power in 2005 and won a second presidential term in January.
He has enough support in parliament to secure the two-thirds majority required to pass constitutional changes, but any amendment must also to be approved by the Supreme Court.
Several of Rajapakse's family hold key positions within the government, and the island's key aid donors, including the United States and Japan, have pushed him to enact political reform and to share power with minority ethnic Tamils.
© AFP
Monday, August 30, 2010
Mannar - Tamil misery continues
By a special correspondent | BBC Sinhala
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Thirty years of war has taken a lot from the lives of the Mannar farmers and they still await a sense of security.
“Be careful and watch your mouth. The government security forces are vigilant and they do not like us talking to outsiders," my hosts warned.
The alert and watchful eyes of weary soldiers scanned every vehicle passing through the checkpoints.
They are tired but seem to be friendly. Especially after the moment they identify someone as a Sinhalese visitor from the south.
They are eager to share their war stories, explain the fighting and hardship they have undergone in the area. They see themselves still as victors.
'Tragic' civilian life
Civilian life is still a tragedy to many. There is nothing left on the ground for the people who return from the camps where they were interned until recently.
“We left with a tractor full of stuff in 2006 and came home with two shopping bags”, Mr A told me.
When the Tigers retreated, Mr A had to leave his village near Madu Church with his three children and wife and follow the orders of the LTTE.
He managed to escape to the army controlled area in 2009 just before the war ended.
“The Army sent us to Manik farm and we were there for year and two months. We got our land back but the house was razed to the ground” A said.
He lived in Murunkan and was brought up by a Sinhalese woman. Fluent in Sinhala Mr A worked in the south. Now he is labouring for 600 rupees a day.
“We get oil, rice, lentils, flour and sugar. We do not have money to buy vegetables. We feed our kids with a pulp made out of murunga (drums sticks) leaves and flour. Sometimes we go on hunting. We do not have guns and the jungles are full of mines. So we have to live on iguanas and other small animals”.
The story is same for many returnees. Many houses were razed to ground. Some live on tiny tents right next to their ruined houses.
They all have to begin their lives from scratch and according to them the support they need is not readily available.
'Extend the suffering'
“The Government promised us they will build our house, but still they did not do anything” Mr A told me.
According to the reports from the area the government redevelopment plan costs about 650,000 rupees per house but only 325,000 rupees is available.
“The aim is to build non permanent houses and extend the suffering of the Tamils” a prominent Tamil leader told me.
“There is no planning, no consultation from local communities or leaders about resettlements, this is worse than the Tsunami but no one is doing anything to ease the suffering of the people” he added.
“If the government is not able to deliver services then it should allow non governmental agencies to intervene, but the Government is not doing that because they are confiscating land and conducting a so-called resettlement plan with a view to implement colonising projects”.
Near Arippu, Muslims have been resettled and local Tamils show their displeasure saying “Kachal” meaning it is disturbing the peace in the area.
Locals say that displaced Muslims were resettled before the Tamils in the area.
In Tirukeshwaram Sinhalese constructors are busy mending roads and reconstructing the damaged temple structures.
The brilliant glossy colours of the nearby Mahathitha Vihara are an example for resurgence of Buddhist temples in the former strong hold of the LTTE, a symbol that does not sit well with local Tamils.
Constructed and maintained by the military Mahathitha Vihara has two resident monks. According to security service personnel, the former leader of the Hela Urumaya, archaeologist Ellawala Medhananda Thero, has confirmed the historical existence of Mahathitha Vihara.
“Now the Tirukeshwaram Temple is challenging the claim as they say we have built the temple in their land” says a member of the military who is stationed in the temple.
Sinhala road names
The propagation of Buddhist shrines is evident throughout roads I followed to Jaffna. Not only that streets and roads were named after heroic Sri Lankan servicemen.
I saw a road named after Gamini Kularathne – Hasalaka Viraya in Vedithalative. Despite the local civilian population being Tamil, the signs of the road were in Sinhala only.
“The army and navy confiscated lands on the grounds of security and they are trying to wipe out our culture and heritage from the area” a person who wants to remain anonymous told me.
The defeat of the LTTE is bringing more miseries to the already wounded Tamils. Local residents who almost lost everything do not have any energy, political organisation or civil movements to oppose such moves.
“People lack basic goods to sustain their day to day life so they cannot bother about the politics” a leading clergyman in the area told me.
It is apparent that Tamils are forced to accept what the Colombo administration wants but the strong resentment to such impositions inevitably delay the prospects of peace in Sri Lanka.
The government is reconstructing the roads and improving the infrastructure. It is widening the roads and building the bridges to link the South.
Yet bunkers located every 500 meters and the continuous presence of the military give an air of a military state without any bridges to link the communities.
I felt that the watchful eyes of the security personnel and the weary manner of the civilians both ask the same question of how long the guns will remain silent.
© BBC Sinhala
Monday, August 30, 2010
Sri Lanka: Diplomatic postings to military men
By Ranga Jayasuriya | Lakbima News
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The proposed diplomatic appointments include former Navy Commander, Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in the United Kingdom, Major General Prasanna Silva, who commanded the 55 Division during the final Eelam war as the Military Advisor to the Sri Lankan High Commission in UK and Major General Shavendra Silva as Sri Lanka’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Major General Prasanna Silva will succeed former Special Force Commander Brigadier Nirmal Darmaratne, who is currently the Military Advisor of the Sri Lankan High Commission in London. Former military spokesman Major General Prasad Samarasinghe was Brigadier Darmaratne’s predecessor in London.
Meanwhile, the proposed appointment of Shavendra Silva has already been challenged by diaspora lobbies on the grounds of purported “war crimes.”
General Sarath Fonseka’s earlier remarks to the Sunday Leader - which he later retracted - that Gen Shavendra Silva received orders to shoot surrendering Tiger leaders is at the root of “war crimes” charges against Sri Lanka.
Activist website, Inner City Press, which increasingly echoes Tamil Diaspora sentiments, reported that it asked Martin Nesirky, spokesman for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, about the reported appointment of Shavendra Silva.
“While Nesirky said he wouldn’t comment on hypotheticals, when Inner City Press asked if Ban would have some discretion to not accept credentials when presented, Nesirky said he would look into it.”
“Shavendra Silva is clearly a witness to the war crime events about which Ban has appointed a (stalled) three member panel to advise him. Would appointing him an ambassador give him de facto or de jure diplomatic immunity?” the website asked.
Diplomatic postings to military men serves two purposes.
For some, especially for the outgoing military commanders, they are a farewell gift by their civilian political superiors, to spend their retirement in the luxury of diplomatic mansions at state expense. Lt General Rohan Daluwatta, who was the commander of the army from 1996- 1998, was appointed Sri Lankan Ambassador to Brazil after his retirement from military service. His successor Sri Lal Weerasuriya was appointed High Commissioner to Pakistan. Lt General Shantha Kottegoda, who was Gen Sarath Fonseka’s predecessor, succeeded Daluwatta as the Sri Lankan Ambassador in Brazil.
Army Chief of Staff, the late Major General Janaka Perera, who was overlooked by President Chandrika Kumaratunga at the behest of Deputy Defence Minister Anurudda Ratwatte to be promoted commander of the army, was later offered a consolation prize: the post of Sri Lankan High Commissioner in Australia. Janaka Perera’s appointment provoked protests by Diaspora Tamils over his alleged involvement in “war crimes.” Gen Perera however served his full term as the Sri Lankan High Commissioner in Australia and was later appointed our man in Indonesia.
The second category of military men in diplomatic postings include military attaches posted in diplomatic missions to liaise with military agencies in host countries and engage in intelligence missions of suspected LTTE activities. Military Intelligence Officer Captain Nilam whose cover was blown after the millennium city raid was appointed as the military attache‚ in Indonesia. Nilam disappeared at the end of his term and, reportedly, sought asylum in the United States.
An increasing number of military men were posted in diplomatic missions in countries where the LTTE is active after the government decided to engage the overseas activities of the Tamil Tigers.
Military misadventures too
Major General Udaya Perera, the former director operations of the army, was sent to Malaysia as the Deputy Ambassador of the Sri Lankan mission. He had a specific mission: nab the new LTTE leader, Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP.
Former Head of the Directorate of Military Intelligence, Major General Amal Karunasekara was appointed as the charge de affairs of the proposed Sri Lankan diplomatic mission in Eritrea. His mission was to hunt down LTTE assets in the East African country. Amal Karunasekara was later recalled as the military investigated the killing of the Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickrematunga, who was assasinated when Major General Karunasekara was heading the Directorate of Military Intelligence.
The Eritrean adventure was a flop. Another, Major General Jagath Dias, who commanded the 57 Division during the fourth Eelam war, was appointed Sri Lanka’s Deputy Ambassador of Germany. Jagath Dias’s appointment has now been challenged by a plethora of Tamil Diaspora associations who have filed a petition at the European Court of Human Rights against the Federal Republic of Germany for accepting Gen Dias’s appointment.
Former Air Force Commander and Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Donald Perera was, a few months back, appointed Sri Lanka’s maiden ambassador to Israel. Air Marshal Perera waded into troubled waters in an interview with Yedioth Ahronoth, an Israeli newspaper, when he said: “We back Israel’s war on terror.”
He advised Israel how to tame Hamas, drawing lessons from Sri Lanka’s war against Tamil Tigers.
“In case the other side shows it is not interested in a compromise, (Israel) must move on to the military phase with full force. (The government) will have to explain to the citizens that (Israel) is headed for a long and difficult struggle that will exact a heavy price, but at the end of this struggle the country’s situation will be much better,” said the ambassador.
“Once you have the public’s support, you should fight relentlessly until all of the terror hubs are destroyed. There is no going back,” he added. Back home, Air Chief Marshal Perera’s remarks caused ripples in pro Palestinean lobbies. He later wrote to Yedioth Ahronoth to clarify the matter, outlining Sri Lanka’s support for the two-state solution.
Diplomats enjoy immunity from arrest and detention and are not susceptible to litigation and lawsuits under the laws of the host country, as guaranteed by international law and the Vienna Convention of Diplomatic Relations of 1963. Therefore, it is a fair conjecture that the Diaspora orchestrated hullabaloo over the appointment of Shavendra Silva and other military men is intended to malign the Sri Lankan government and its war effort. But, if history is any guide, as the case of Gen Janaka Perera would tell, the protests would die down after a couple of futile attempts.
© Lakbima News
Monday, August 30, 2010
Indian Army chief to visit Sri Lanka
Deccan Herald
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The general’s visit will be part of a series of high-level visits that have been pencilled in for the next few months. Also on the anvil are the visits by Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik and defence secretary Pradeep Kumar, in that order. The Indian Navy chief, Admiral Nirmal Verma, visited Sri Lanka in June.
External affairs minister S.M. Krishna is expected to visit Colombo later this year. His Sri Lankan counterpart, G.L. Peiris, is scheduled to visit India in October for delivering a lecture here, on the margins of which he can be expected to hold consultations with the Indian government on the progress of the decisions arrived at in Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s visit here in June.
These visits are expected to lay the foundation of a robust framework of bilateral cooperation in the post-LTTE era, in areas such as defence and security cooperation, trade and investment, infrastructure development, people-to-people ties, and rehabilitation of the war-ravaged northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka.
Besides an annual defence dialogue, India and Sri Lanka would be looking to step up maritime-security cooperation and increase the level and frequency of defence exchanges.
A proposal on the table is to have more interactions between the middle-level officials in the armed forces of the two countries, so that the future decision-makers are familiarised with the actual state of play in the bilateral relationship.
© Deccan Herald
Monday, August 30, 2010
Defeating terrorism: Sri Lanka to share experience with the world
The Island
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Lt. Gen. Jayasuriya, the senior officer in charge of all fighting formations deployed in the Vanni during the largest ever combined security forces campaign, says army headquarters had recently received Defence Ministry approval to invite military contingents from the SAARC region.
Addressing the officers and men after declaring open a monument at Minneriya in memory of those who had paid the supreme sacrifice in the battle against terrorism, the Armoured Corps veteran said that other countries too would be given an opportunity to learn from Sri Lanka’s experience.
© The Island
Monday, August 30, 2010
Not a single IDP registered: 14,000 IDP families will lose voting rights
By Rathindra Kuruwita | Lakbima News
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“The department commenced the revision on June, 1, 2010. After three months the officials have made dismal progress in the North and the East with less than 10% of the Grama Niladari divisions in the Jaffna District completing the process to date. We must realize that Jaffna district is the better administrated district in the North,” Keerthi Tennakoon, Director CaFFE told Lakbimanews.
He added that at this pace the voter registration revision in Mullativu and Kilinochchi Districts will not be completed in time for the local council election. 20% of Grama Niladari posts in both districts are vacant while Grama Niladaris who are already there are ignorant of the voting process.
“The department of elections cannot keep on extending deadlines for voter registry revision, because there is not much time left for the local council election. Ultimately they will use the 2009 voter registry which is incomplete. A large number of people in the North and East lost their voting rights in the presidential and general elections this year and it will be unfortunate if there is a repeat performance two years after the war has ended”,he said.
© Lakbima News
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Military men to head key Sri Lankan Missions
By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema | The Sunday Leader
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The government has decided to appoint former Navy Commander Wasantha Karannagoda as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to the UK, Major General Prasanna Silva as the defence attaché to the High Commission in the UK, Major General G.A. Chandrasiri as the Permanent Representative to the Sri Lankan Mission to the UN in New York, and Major General Shavendra Silva as the Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in New York.
Diplomatic sources, who requested anonymity, told The Sunday Leader that the move to appoint military personnel to key foreign missions was mooted by senior members of the country’s defence establishment.
“The government feels that appointing military men to head the country’s overseas missions would help it respond to various questions posed by the international community, especially the Western world, about the final stages of the war last year,” a diplomatic source said, adding that these military personnel would also be able to show the world how the war was won.
Nevertheless, the question that looms among Foreign Service personnel in the country is how effective these individuals would be when carrying out multilateral diplomacy.
“Diplomacy is a different game and cannot be done by people with guns,” the source noted.
Commander Karannagoda was the chief of the Navy in the security forces’ final battle with the LTTE. Major General Silva during the war was the head of the 58th Brigade, which was instrumental in capturing several former LTTE strongholds including the Mannar Rice Bowl, Nachchikuda, Devil’s Point, Pooneryn, Kilinochchi, Elephant Pass, Vishvamadu and Puthukudirippu.
The appointment of Majors General Chandrasiri and Silva comes in the wake of allegations of human rights and rules of combat violations being leveled against the security forces and the LTTE by the UN.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has appointed a panel of experts to inquire into these allegations and accountability during the final stages of the war last year.
According to External Affairs Ministry sources, the government is looking at breaking the LTTE’s international network while opening an avenue to respond to various questions raised about the final stages on the war by appointing military personnel to head Sri Lankan missions overseas.
However, the country is currently in need of cultivating a strong relationship with the diaspora through its foreign missions.
“A military person would not be able to build a successful relationship with the Tamil Diaspora. The diaspora is not free to build a dialogue with military personnel. Also, career diplomats have wider access while military personnel would have limited access,” a Foreign Service official said.
Explaining further, the official said the response to military personnel by other foreign officers is ‘lower’ than that received by a career diplomat.
“One can be a good military leader, but may not necessarily be a good diplomat,” the Foreign Service official said.
Nevertheless, Government Spokesperson Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said the military personnel decided by the government to be posted into Sri Lankan missions overseas have a proven track record and have delivered the targets set out to them.
“Appointments to foreign missions are the prerogative of the President and military personnel have been appointed to foreign missions in the past as well,” he said.
He also said that other Asian countries have appointed military personnel to their diplomatic missions.
When asked if these military personnel who played a role in the security forces final war against the LTTE last year would respond directly to concerns raised about the conduct of the war by the Western nations, Rambukwella said it could be so.
Also, when queried if the appointment of Major General Silva to the UN would have an adverse impact on the inquiry by the UN’s panel of experts into Sri Lanka, the Minister said, “I would think otherwise, they could participate, contribute and make use of their expertise. If there are any allegations made, they could respond.”
According to Rambukwella, all these factors have contributed to the government’s decision to appoint military personnel to its key foreign missions despite the objections raised in some quarters.
Post-war Sri Lanka has now entered the crucial phase of mending relations with the Western world, who have now distanced themselves from the country. The massive task of building these relations based on Sri Lanka’s foreign policy while combating the LTTE’s international network now lies in the hands of military men in the country’s foreign missions.
© The Sunday Leader
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