[TamilNet, Saturday, 05 May 2012, 09:35 GMT]
A
senior female ex-cadre of the LTTE, ‘rehabilitated’ and ‘released’
recently by the genocidal SL military has self-immolated herself
Thursday night in Polika'ndi in Vadmaraadchi inside a closed room at the
camp for resettlement-seeking people. The deceased, 38-year-old
Suganthy Sivalingam, had been a member of the LTTE for more than 15
years and was serving in the LTTE medics after she sustained serious
injury in a combat operation in 1999. She was engaged in medical
services during the final days of the war in Vanni. Suganthy, who was
mentally strong, was seen depressed and physically ill on the day of the
suicide, the family said. Informed sources further said that the SL
military had subjected the victim to severe mental torture in their
'rehabilitation' detention.
The international community, including India that have abetted the
Sinhala state in the genocidal war, continue to follow a policy of
leaving the Eezham Tamil ex-liberation fighters in the hands of the
genocidal Sinhala military, causing the inhuman treatment meted out to
them with international tolerance, human rights activists in Jaffna
accused.
It is quite natural for the genocidal Sinhala military
to treat ex-Eezham Tamil liberation fighters in inhuman ways. But it is
an abnormal crime on the part of certain countries of the IC and India
to facilitate such a situation, the activists further said.
UK was one of the countries that were directly involved in ‘funding’ the process of SLA’s handling of ex-LTTE cadres.
Refusing
to admit the ethnic/ genocidal perspective of the crime and leaving
matters as affairs of the Sri Lankan state is the fundamental
encouragement given to the Sinhala state to commit the crimes whether in
war or in the so-called post-war, the activists pointed out.
On Thursday, Suganthy had burnt herself with kerosene oil within a closed room.
At the time of her death, she was living with her parents at the resettlement camp at Paalaavi in Polika'ndi.
Suganthy's suicide comes at a time when former LTTE members are subjected to harassment and abductions by the SL military.
The ‘released’ LTTE cadres are ordered to come to the SL military camps for regular harassment.
Meanwhile,
within the last 7 days, three former members of the LTTE, released
after ‘rehabilitation’ by the SL military, have been abducted at
Kamparmalai, informed civil sources said.
The families of the victims have been threatened not to disclose any details of the abduction or reveal their names to media.
The
modes operandi of the SLA is not releasing those who were ‘abducted’
for ‘inquiries’ if the families complain or news stories appear on media
on their abductions.
Accordingly, there was no complaint with
the SL Human Rights Commission or with the Police on the latest
abductions of the former LTTE members, journalists said.
However,
whether complaints are made or not, not a single ex-LTTE member
abducted after being released have returned alive, news sources point
out.
But, parents hoping for the best, are reluctant to file
complaints fearing that they would endanger the lives of their sons and
daughters, held incommunicado at undisclosed locations by the SL
military.
The entire apparatus of the occupying SLA and its
intelligence, which have no combat role after May 2009, focus their
energy on surveillance and harassment of former ex-LTTE members
‘rehabilitated’ and ‘released’ by the SL military.
The military
has also told the ex-members of the LTTE that if they get arrested at
the airport while leaving the island, they would never return alive