Dokument #1324268
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Sources currently available to the DIRB do
not provide information on whether the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE) tie the bodies of traitors to lampposts in public
places. However, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for
1993 maintains that the LTTE
is thought to have executed a number of its opponents, as well as
Tamil civilians accused of helping the security forces. In January
[1992] the LTTE publicly executed two alleged traitors and in
February executed three civilians in Mullaittivu District for
allegedly passing information to the security forces. In December
the LTTE announced that it had executed nine more "traitors" in
Jaffna (1994, 1388).
As well, Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1992 maintains that the LTTE "summarily executed
37 'traitors' and 'deserters' during July [1991]" (1992, 1175).
Although it does not specifically refer to traitors, Amnesty
International Report 1993 states that "[t]he LTTE executed
several prisoners accused of being informers" (1993, 266).
The two attached articles provides
additional information on the execution of alleged traitors and
executions in public places by the LTTE.
This response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum.
Amnesty International. 1993.
Amnesty International Report 1993. 1993. New York: Amnesty
International USA.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1993. 1994. United States Department of State.
Washington, DC: United States Government Printing House.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1992. 1993. United States Department of State.
Washington, DC: United States Government Printing House.
Amnesty International. February 1994.
Sri Lanka: Summary of Human Rights Concerns. (AI Index: ASA
37/09/94). London: Amnesty International Publications, p. 8.
The Sri Lanka Monitor [London].
June 1992. "Victims," p. 2.