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Sri Lanka "As If I Am Not Human" Abuses against Asian Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia
HRW Index No.: 1-56432-351-X July 8, 2008 Also available in 
Download PDF, 466 KB, 137 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Recurring Nightmare State Responsibility for “Disappearances” and Abductions in Sri Lanka
HRW Index No.: C2002 March 6, 2008 Download PDF, 3490 KB, 241 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Exported and Exposed Abuses against Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates
HRW Index No.: C1916 November 14, 2007 Also available in 
Download PDF, 905 KB, 133 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Return to War Human Rights under Siege
HRW Index No.: C1911 August 6, 2007 Download PDF, 1980 KB, 129 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Complicit in Crime State Collusion in Abductions and Child Recruitment by the Karuna Group In this 100-page report, Human Rights Watch documents a pattern of abductions and forced recruitment by the Karuna group in Sri Lanka over the past year. With case studies, maps and photographs, it shows how Karuna cadres operate with impunity in government-controlled areas, abducting boys and young men, training them in camps, and deploying them for combat. HRW Index No.: C1901 January 24, 2007 Download PDF, 1680 KB, 102 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Swept Under the Rug Abuses against Domestic Workers Around the World
HRW Index No.: C1807 July 26, 2006 Download PDF, 470 KB, 95 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Funding the "Final War" LTTE Intimidation and Extortion in the Tamil Diaspora This 45-page report details how representatives of the LTTE and pro-LTTE groups use unlawful pressure among Tamil communities in the West to secure financial pledges. People were told that if they did not pay the requested sum, they would not be able to return to Sri Lanka to visit family members. HRW Index No.: C1801 March 15, 2006 Also available in 
Download PDF, 325 KB, 48 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Living in Fear Child Soldiers and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka This 80 page report includes firsthand testimonies from dozens of children from northeastern Sri Lanka who have been recruited by the Tamil Tigers since the ceasefire came into effect. Children described rigorous and sometimes brutal military training, including training with heavy weapons, bombs and landmines. Children who try to escape are typically beaten in front of their entire unit as a warning to others. HRW Index No.: C1613 November 11, 2004 Also available in
Download PDF, 843 KB, 84 pgs Purchase online Empty Promises Diplomatic Assurances No Safeguard Against Torture Individuals suspected of terrorism should never be returned to a country where they risk torture and ill-treatment. Promises of fair treatment by states with well-known records of torture are inherently unreliable, and governments that justify returns through such promises, known as “diplomatic assurances,” are violating the absolute prohibition against torture and eroding a fundamental principle of international law. The death penalty, however reprehensible, is legal and usually carried out publicly. But torture is illegal and practiced in secret. Governments routinely lie about whether they’re torturing people or not, and in some situations they may not even have adequate control to guarantee security. This 39-page report documents cases where governments returned or considered returning suspects on the basis of such formal guarantees, and raises concern that in some cases, those returned were, in fact, tortured or ill-treated. HRW Index No.: D1604 April 15, 2004 Download PDF, 360 KB, 39 pgs Purchase online Sri Lanka: Child Soldier Use 2003 A Briefing for the 4th UN Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict The armed opposition group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) continued to recruit and use children in violation of international law. January 16, 2004 Sri Lanka: Child Soldiers Global Report 2001 From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers The Tamil armed group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), has a long record of using child soldiers, some as young as nine. There have been encouraging signs recently of a shift in LTTE policy, but previous promises have been broken and child recruitment has continued to be reported. There are some reports of child recruitment in government allied paramilitary groups. There is inadequate protection and rehabilitation provided to LTTE child soldiers who have surrendered to the government. June 12, 2001 Sri Lanka Key developments since March 1999: Both sides are using antipersonnel mines in the escalated fighting. The UN Mine Action Project began in July 1999 and was expanded in early 2000, but had to be suspended in April 2000 due to the conflict. A total of 214,541 square meters of land had been cleared. It appears there were at least several hundred civilian mine casualties in 1999. August 1, 2000 Stop Killings of Civilians Following the outbreak of the third phase of the Sri Lankan civil war on April 19, 1995, the Sri Lankan armed forces and the LTTE engaged in acts of violence that had by July claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians. Among these were a massacre of 42 Sinhalese villagers in eastern Sri Lanka by the LTTE on May 26; the killing of five Muslim civilians in northern Trincomalee district by soldiers on May 6; and on July 9, the deaths of over 100 persons, including at least 13 infants, in a bombing of a church crowded with refugees displaced by “Operation Leap Forward,” a major military offensive launched on the Jaffna Peninsula that day. HRW Index No.: C711 July 1, 1995 Halt Repatriation of Sri Lankan Tamils In August 1993, the Indian government repatriated nearly 7,000 of the more than 80,000 Sri Lankan Tamils then residing in government-run refugee camps in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. The refugees fled northeastern Sri Lanka in June 1990 after fighting broke out between government forces and a guerrilla army. There are indications that refugees would have been repatriated involuntarily, that they were insufficiently aware of the ongoing conflict in Sri Lanka to make informed decisions about returning, and that they may be subjected to persecution upon their return. HRW Index No.: C511 August 1, 1993 Human Rights Accountability in Sri Lanka The issue of accountability for past human rights abuses gained considerable prominence in the 1980s as unprecedented global political change focused attention on the crimes of ousted regimes. Unlike most of the nations experiencing radical political change and facing accountability issues, however, Sri Lanka’s political system remains intact. It has enjoyed regular elections since it gained independence in 1948, but Sri Lanka has been torn by a decade-long civil war, several militant insurgencies and brutal government anti-insurgency campaigns. Demands for accountability for past abuses are aimed squarely at perpetrators within the current administration and emanate from an angry citizenry, from human rights groups, and from Sri Lanka’s donor nations. This report from Asia Watch examines this volatile issue in the context of the Sri Lankan conflict and concludes that despite a good faith effort by the government to address human rights abuses, it will be some time before the principle of accountability takes root in Sri Lanka. HRW Index No.: 1-56432-072-2 May 1, 1992
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The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions has made two visits to Sri Lanka. The report from Philip Alston's visit in November and December 2005 in: English Sinhala Tamil  
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