The number of complaints on human rights violations
reported from Vavuniya and Mannar districts during the current year was
1760 and most complaints had been investigated by the Human Rights
Commission, the commission’s district officer Rohitha Priyadarshana said.
Addressing a seminar on Thursday to educate public
servants and schoolchildren in Vavuniya he said though the complaints from
the LTTE controlled areas could not be investigated, complaints from the
government administered areas were investigated.
He said the complaints were on cases of abductions,
extortion of money and intimidation. However there were instances when the
complainants and the commission officers who were investigating complaints
had received threats.
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