Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
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Last year, a video showing several young naked Tamils men being brutally tortured and killed in an unabashed manner by the Sri-Lankan Army was released by Channel 4 news, and independent News Agency from the UK. While the video was graphic and disturbing, many Tamils are severely tortured before they are killed in a similar fashion.
“Video footage released by Britain’s Channel 4 has shown a Sri Lankan soldier shooting a suspect Tamil rebel at point blank range in spite of the latter being young, naked, bound and blindfolded. To top it all, the visibly amused soldier simply says after the killing: “It’s like he jumped.”
According to ‘The Times’, the footage appears to show what the Tamil community and human rights campaigners have long alleged – that in its final surge against the Tamil Tiger rebels this year, the Sri Lankan Army summarily killed prisoners.
Channel 4 claims a Sri Lankan soldier recorded the video on his mobile phone in January, when government forces overwhelmed the LTTE stronghold at Kilinochchi.
After the murder the video, taken in daylight, pans out to show eight bound corpses, all shot in the head and all but one naked. Voices in the background speak Sinhalese; as the footage concludes, viewers see a ninth bound victim shot.”
Source: IndianExpress
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