In an interview last week in Colombo, Sri Lanka Army Commander Lt. Gen. Mahesh Senanayake denied the torture allegations. The Sri Lankan government minister in charge of the police agreed to an interview with the AP last month but did not follow through. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, one of the UN’s top diplomats who has pushed for accountability in Sri Lanka, was aghast at the AP’s accounts of the 52 tortured men. In 2014 while still in Sri Lanka, he visited his wife in the hospital after she gave birth to a son. The torture roomA Sri Lankan man known as Witness #199 shows the scars on his back during an interview in London.

Source: thestar November 09, 2017 00:55 UTC