Majority of the detainees are there for experiencing depression & as a result 5 detainees tried to commit suicide by hanging themselves inside camp.!!

Detainees in Welikanda under much pressure
Serious shortage of water and medicine

2010-08-04

A severe drinking water and medicine shortage has been reported from the rehabilitation camp in Welikanda for former LTTE members. It is learnt that three such rehabilitation camps in Welikanda house 3,500 LTTE suspects. It is also learnt that while these individuals are held in 10x10 feet tin sheet huts, they are only provided with technical training under the rehabilitation programme.

A majority of the detainees are there for experiencing depression and as a result five detainees have tried to commit suicide by hanging themselves inside the camp last week. However, security forces personnel had intervened and prevented the detainees from committing suicide.

These details were revealed when former Deputy Chairman of Committee in parliament and JVP


parliamentarian Ramalingam Chandrasekar and Jayantha Wijesekera visited the Welikanda camp with relatives of those detained there. The visit to the camps was part of the second phase of the JVP’s programme to intervene to resolve the problems faced by the people in the North.

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