Dokument #1123143
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Detailed information contained in the
enclosed documents confirms that 50 or more Tamils prisoners were
killed by Sinhalese prisoners in Welikade Prison in 1983.
Jeyasingham Ariyaratnam does not appear to be on the list of the
Tamils murdered in the Welikade Prison in July 1983. The attached
documents are:
University of New South Wales. 1985.
Democracy in Peril: Sri Lanka: A Country in Crisis. A Report
to the LAWASIA Human Rights Standing Committee by Patricia
Hyndman.
East, Rogers, ed. Keesing's Record of
World Events 1984. Vol.30. London: Longman Group UK Ltd.,
1984.
Tamils Times. July 1983, Vol. 11,
No. 9. "Sri Lanka - Barbarism Back With Vengeance: The July
Massacre and After".
Amnesty International. Amnesty
International Report 1984, London: Amnesty International
Publications, 1984.