police killings

Image: Two businessmen ( SLM) Two businessmen  Manjula Asanka and Raseen Chinthaka from  from  Boossa, Galle district  has been abducted b the police and they have  tortured and killed Sri Lanka media reports. ;ater their bodies have been burned.  Sinhala weekly Ravaya reports  a group of Southern Province police officers were involved in this murder, according to […]

The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) proposes to establish an independent body to investigate cases of deaths in custody including killings, immediately following such incidents before the cases reach the HRCSL. The proposal comes in the wake of the death of a teenage suspect in Police custody, which reportedly took place on Thursday, […]

(AHRC) The table given below sets down 09 extrajudicial killings, 01 attempted killing – 09 of which are at the hands of the police at various police stations and the other, in a prison. These 10 incidents are the ones reported to the Asian Human Rights Commission based in Hong Kong during this year. However, […]

Image: Gamini was tortured to death by Divulapitiya police, in WP, Sri Lanka. ( credit: FB) Mr. Naiwala Appuhamilage Gamini Edwad (50) of Kelepitimulla, Hunumulla, Divulapitiya in the Gampaha District was married and the father of two children, a 12 year old daughter and an 8 year old son. He was a Watchman in the […]

Image: IGP Pujith Jayasundara only talk, no walk. (AHRC). The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information about Mr. Magoda Pathirage Hemavipul (42). He was extra-judicially killed on 19 September 2017, by Officers attached to the Pitigala Police Station. The victim was arrested on 18 September and detained in a cell overnight. He was arrested […]

(AHRC) The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information about Mr. Sathasivam Madisam of Karadiyanaru in the Batticaloa District. On 24 July, Sathasivam along with his brother and several other friends went to the Mundeniyaru Lagoon to swim. While they were in the water, they observed large numbers of STF officers with weapons approaching the […]

Image: IGP  Pujith Jayasundara: Only talk no walk!  The Asian Human Rights Commission  reports that it has has received information about the case of Mr. Bodhipakshage Manjula Prabath Wijewardana of Nisansala, Arama, Aranayaka in the Kegalle District. At 10:30 a.m. on 13 June 2017, Manjula was waiting on the main road, in front of the […]

Image: Chadik’s Wife, son and daughter; Chadik Shyaman Wickramarachchi was killed at the Peliyagoda police on 25th Feb 2017. ( Newsfirst photo) Bijo Francis. Two more extrajudicial killings at police stations have been reported in Sri Lanka. One of the alleged killings was at the Peliyagoda Police Station, and the other was at the Gampaha […]

Image by Vikalpa: Protest organised by Right 2 Life HR NGO against the killing of Sadun Malinga. by Basil Fernando. Last week, in the High Court of Badulla five police officers and a security officer were sentenced to death for causing the murder of Sadun Malinga, a 17-year-old boy. The boy and four of his […]

( Image of Sri Lanka Police seeking religious blessing to minimize road accidents; Bring them under democratic governance says academics) Issuing a statement on the killing of two university students in Jaffna, a concerned group of university academics say that “an inquiry into the killings is expedited and all state forces brought under democratic forms […]

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) unequivocally condemns the incident that took place in Jaffna today, killing 2 university students, press release issued by the Alliance says. The leader of the TNA, and The Leader of the Opposition, Hon R Sampanthan MP has met His Excellency the President Maithripala Sirisena while attending an event in Trincomalee […]

( Two students who have been killed; Image Sri Lanka Mirror) Two Tamil students of the University  of Jaffna were reportedly shot dead by Sri Lankan police this  (21) evening, reports Tamil Guardian. Post-mortem report has not yest being released although unconfirmed media reports indicate that bullets have been found the in the bodies of the […]

Shashika Nishamani Munasinghe, the widow of Sumith Prasanna Munasinghe (29) who died after a controversial fall from a three-storey building in Embilipitiya two weeks ago, during a clash with the police said yesterday that she seen her husband being pushed off the building. Addressing a media briefing held in Maradana yesterday at which her daughter, […]

[In interview with Upul Jayasuriya, President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL)] by Maheen Senanayake – “No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another.” – Thomas Jefferson I found Mr. Upul Jayasuriya, incumbent head of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, getting ready for the customary […]

News1st provided footage of the incident in Divulapitiya to the Minuwangoda police upon a request made by the Police. The footage was provided to the Minuwangoda Police a few days after the incident took place on June 23, which resulted in the death of an individual in police fire. We provided the footage to a […]

”The report presented by Ms. Manisha Gunasekera, Deputy Permanent Representative gives figures of casualties that are ridiculous to say the least. She, like the Inspector General of Police is implying that the Muslims were the cause of the violence as they have cast the first stone when the procession was allowed to go through a […]

AHRC-ART-052-2014-01.jpg Basil Fernando The video footage is fairly clear. First we see a tall policeman wearing a helmet standing with his arm stretched towards the other side of the road. Then we see a scooter stopped just next to him. There is one man sat on the scooter. Looking closer, we see that the policeman […]

Deaths in Police Custody Media Release/ 24th June 2014           The Friday Forum has urged the Inspector General of Police to respond as a matter of urgency to the current public concern, including that of the Bar Council, on the deaths that are taking place in police custody. A particularly shocking recent incident involves the death of a 17year old minor after assault in police custody. The […]

Subash Indika Jayasinghe A statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission On the night of June 11, officers attached to the Nittambuwa police station gunned down Subash Indika Jayasinghe, a 24-year-old man, for no reason. A friend named Saveen Chathuranga, 18-years-old, was accompanying Indika. Saveen describes the incident as follows: Indika and Saveen were travelling […]

IGP Ilangakoon: Murder suspect? The Standing Committee of the Rule of Law of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka has issued a strong statement condemning the death of criminal suspects in police custody saying that the “acceptance of such blatant manifest untruths has made a mockery of the administration of justice in the country.’’ Commenting […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a young man of the age of 17 who was illegally arrested by officers from the Kandaketiya police and severely tortured along with his brother and another family member. Despite appeals by his parents and lawyers the Magistrate who heard the case presented by the […]

SRI LANKA: No country is rich enough to pay for the cost of lawlessness (A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission) Sri Lankans have just been confronted with the abduction of two policemen, one of whom was assassinated. The other narrowly escaped by struggling and running into the jungle naked. He is now receiving […]

File photo (bfi.org.uk) Below we publish a news item for mainstream newsapaper in Sri Lanka. It has published the police version of the killing of a civilain, after he was arrrested justifing the killing of another civilian by police. This shows the self censorship that prevails in Sri Lankan media. Underworld gangster ‘Heen malli’ shot […]

Chinthaka Wasantha the main suspect of the murder of a police constable and his wife in Kamburupitiya died due to a confrontation with STF at Nigala last night, Police said. The Police spokesman claimed that when the STF had surrounded the suspect in Nigala last night the suspect opened fire at them and died in […]

A 30-year-old ex-army commando deserter arrested over the killing of a constable attached to the Matara police anti-vice squad and his wife, was shot dead yesterday morning, when he allegedly attempted to shoot police personnel taking him to recover a hidden arms cache. Constable W. G. Sunil was shot on his head while his wife, […]