Sri Lanka: Government Abuses Intensify Human Rights Watch
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Since December 2006, abductions and

Since December 2006, abductions and "disappearances" have risen rapidly in Sri Lanka, with government security forces frequently implicated. Here the mother of a young ethnic Tamil man who was abducted and killed by unknown perpetrators in May 2007 mourns outside a hospital in Vavuniya. © 2007 Reuters