Reuters, Tue Feb 20 18:55:24 EST 2007
BOOSSA, Sri Lanka, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Huddled outside a detention camp in Sri Lanka's far south, relatives of civilians held for months without charge say lives are being ruined by emergency regulations amid renewed civil war.
Some with babes in arms, others carrying a few packets of biscuits for a detained husband or brother, they swelter in the burning sun. Most have travelled all night to see loved ones imprisoned for suspected links to Tamil Tiger rebels.
But months pass and still no charges are brought, and relatives and rights groups are up in arms.
"They still haven't charged my brother!" said one woman, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid any retribution, after a weekend visit to Boossa detention camp a few kilometres from the island's historic southern port town of Galle.
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The government is apparently not in mood to care about Sri Lankans in prisons: neither domestic nor overseas.
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If our ministers made half the fuss they kick up when they are sacked, when there is injustice disorder or crime, then Sri Lanka would be 10 times better off.
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