Sri Lanka 'using rape as weapon on Tamils'

February 27, 2013 02:01

RAPE is being used as an instrument of torture by Sri Lankan security forces to extract confessions from suspected Tamil separatist supporters, Human Rights Watch has alleged.

As a United Nations Human Rights Council meeting that will examine Sri Lanka's civil rights record begins in Geneva, a report released by Human Rights Watch, We Will Teach You a Lesson, details 75 statements from Tamil victims who say they were raped and tortured by soldiers, police and other pro-government paramilitary groups.

Thirty-one of the victims allege they were raped after the cessation of Sri Lanka's long-running civil war in May 2009.

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