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Thunnalai residents file complaint against security force round-up operations to human rights commission

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10 Aug  2017
Thunnalai residents have filed a complaint against STF and police round-up operations, that resulted in 24 arrests in the area, to the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka.
Thunnalai locals, including mothers of some arrested youths, filed a complaint at the HRCSL regional office in Jaffna on Wednesday.
The residents have said that the search and round-up operations which lasted three days were carried out inhumanely and led to wrongful arrests.
The 24 young Tamil men arrested in Thunnalai and neighbouring villages were charged with violent infractions related to protests following the killing of a local man by Sri Lankan police.
However the complaint claims that many of the youths arrested were not in the area during the incident or had no connection to the protests and violence.