FROM 7 AUGUST 2007 JOSEPH TO 14 JULY 2009 JAGATH JAYASURIYA WAS THE JOSEPH CAMP COMMANDER. THE RED CIRCLE INDICATES CAMP HIS HOUSE.

FROM 7 AUGUST 2007 TO 14 JULY 2009: TORTURE CHAMBERS JAGATH JAYASURIYA WAS THE JOSEPH CAMP COMMANDER. Joseph Camp’s torture chambers were purpose built and contained various Joseph Camp (also known as the Vanni objects such as metal bars and poles Security Force Headquarters) has used for beatings, barrels of water used been a hub for military and for water torture, and pulleys and other counter terrorism operations in the apparatus from which victims were northern districts of . suspended. Several victims have sketched APPROXIMATE At the peak of the civil war, both their holding cells and interrogation EASTERN BOUNDARY military and police operated from rooms. the base; this included the Military Intelligence Corps (MIC), and other THIS YOUNG MAN, NOW IN THE UK, military units, including the Sri Lankan DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM IN Airforce, as well as police units such JOSEPH CAMP: as the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID), responsible for counter- “They (…) pushed me inside terrorism investigations and threats to internal security. and face down onto a table with four legs also sticking JOSEPH CAMP COMMANDERS: ABDUCTION TEAMS up. I was only wearing shorts. They removed my Joseph Camp was a hub for the notorious WIDESPREAD TORTURE IN SRI LANKA JOSEPH CAMP TORTURE & SEXUAL VIOLENCE ‘white vans’ used by the Sri Lankan shorts and tied each leg and security forces to abduct suspects. One arm to the four legs sticking The UN’s 2015 investigation found The UN’s 2015 report includes insider witness explains the procedure up from the tabletop. One that there was “widespread, accounts of the torture and sexual in 2009 in Joseph Camp in the Military systematic and particularly brutal” abuse of many victims in Joseph Camp Intelligence Corps which came under soldier brought a pipe in one use of torture by Government security during and after the war. For example 2016-2017: Jagath Jayasuriya’s command: hand and a string of barbed JULY 2017–PRESENT 2012-16: MAJOR forces at the end of the war and it says: MAJOR GENERAL MAJOR GENERAL wire in the other and he said JEEWAKA RUWAN after the war. It concluded that KUMUDU PERERA BONIFACE PERERA When there were “white van” if I did not accept I was the KULATUNGA there were reasonable grounds to “One of the most barbaric believe that torture was committed on abductions ordered, at least person they alleged, they methods of sexual torture a Sergeant was given the a widespread scale and could would make me confess. Two amount to war crimes and/or crimes described in a number order to make the abduction people spread my buttocks and against humanity1. COMMANDER 22 DIVISION (2016), HE TOOK PART IN ALL MAJOR HE TOOK PART IN ALMOST ALL MAJOR of different testimonies and he would take four I felt he inserted the pipe, 51 DIVISION (2009), 551 OFFENSIVES IN NORTHERN SRI LANKA. OFFENSIVES AGAINST THE LTTE AND WAS (2007), HE WAS ONE OF THE OFFICERS FROM 2005-7 HE WAS AN INFANTRY THE COMMANDER OF THE EAST DURING SEXUAL VIOLENCE AS PART OF A POLICY involved the insertion of corporals and a number of us it was extremely painful, I SENT TO HAITI TO INVESTIGATE CHILD BRIGADE COMMANDER IN MUHAMALEI, THE WAR AND THEN THE COMPETENT SEXUAL EXPLOITATION BY SRI LANKAN JAFFNA. AFTER THE WAR, HE RAN THE AUTHORITY FOR DISPLACED WAR barbed wire through a pipe who worked with them. When I was crying and one guy pulled UN PEACEKEEPERS. MILITARY ACADEMY UNTIL IN 2012 SURVIVORS IN THE NORTHERN REGION. The UN found that rape and sexual BECOMING THE COMMANDER OF THE 55TH violence by security forces personnel inserted into the anus. speak of white van my head up and asked again if INFANTRY DIVISION, IN JAFFNA. HE abductions, indeed the vans RECEIVED A GALLANTRY AWARD THREE was widespread against both male and The pipe was pulled out I was that person, I shook my TIMES FOR HIS ROLE IN THE “COUNTER female detainees2. It concluded that TERRORIST OPERATION”. were actually white. At head and said ‘no, no, no’. the incidents of sexual violence first and then the barbed Joseph Camp we had about four Then I felt he pulled it out were part of a deliberate policy to wire, causing “unbearable such vans. These vans did and I was in severe pain and inflict torture3. The UN also noted pain and bleeding”. the particular cruelty and brutality not have license plates and fainted. (…) I could feel involved in the cases they documented all the side and back windows something was being turned from Sri Lanka, which was one of were tinted. No one could inside my anus but I did not their most shocking findings. see inside. All of our vans know what it was I only were Toyota Hiace models. realized afterwards. When I 2011-12 2009-2011 2007-2009 When were ordered to abduct a regained consciousness I was MAJOR GENERAL MAJOR GENERAL MAJOR GENERAL specific target we never wore lying on the floor in a room, SUMEDHA PERERA KAMAL GUNARATNE JAGATH JAYASURIYA uniforms. We always looked there was blood everywhere on like ordinary civilians. The the floor, I could not move. Military Intelligence Corps The next day I could move a APPOINTED DEPUTY CHIEF OF IN IN CHARGE OF THE 53 DIVISION DURING AFTER THE WAR, HE BECAME THE (MIC) officers always had bit and I felt around my THE ARMY (FEBRUARY 2016). HE SERVED THE LAST PHASE OF FIGHTING. IN 2012 COMMANDER OF THE ARMY AND THEN UNDER THE FORMER DEFENCE SECRETARY HE WAS SENT AS DEPUTY AMBASSADOR TO THE CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF. HE IS pistols on their belts under anus; some pieces of flesh IN THE IN MATALE BRAZIL. HE IS PART OF THE GAJABA CURRENTLY AMBASSADOR TO BRAZIL, their shirts that they wore IN 1989 (ALONGSIDE REGIMENT AND ALSO SPECIAL FORCES. COLUMBIA, PERU, CHILE, ARGENTINA were coming out, as if from a AND JAGATH DIAS). HE WAS AND SURINAME. outside their trousers.” GENERAL STAFF SFHQ-W IN 2009. broiler chicken.” HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE MILITARY COURT OF INQUIRY SET UP TO INVESTIGATE ALLEGATIONS RAISED BY ITJP WITNESS 67 ITJP WITNESS 200 CHANNEL 4 NEWS. TORTURE UNDER JAGATH JAYASURIYA’S COMMAND

14 VICTIMS HAVE GIVEN DETAILED terrible burning pain.” • His concentration is poor. He TESTIMONY ABOUT BEING DETAINED AND IMPACT doesn’t read because he has no TORTURED IN JOSEPH CAMP DURING THE motivation. But also he can’t PERIOD JAGATH JAYASURIYA WAS IN ITJP WITNESS 109 (attempted ON SURVIVORS concentrate and take in what COMMAND OF THE SITE. suicide in 2015) he’s reading. The same thing THIS IS AN EXTRACT FROM A MEDICO with TV, he can only watch TV “The worst torture I LEGAL REPORT WRITTEN BY A BRITISH for a few minutes at a time “The men who tortured me were DOCTOR DESCRIBING THE IMPACT OF THE before his mind is elsewhere. experienced in all my joyful, singing, talking TORTURE AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN detentions was in Joseph among themselves, smoking and JOSEPH CAMP ON A YOUNG TAMIL MAN: • His mind is full of memories Camp.” seemed to have no heart but of his past all the time. • His appetite is poor - he is Images of his detention and the rather enjoyed the torture… unable to eat much without sexual abuse come into his head ITJP WITNESS 85. One of the men came back to feeling like vomiting [he held constantly. He wants to forget the interrogation room after his head in his hands at this all this but the very memories point]. he wants to forget keep coming “On the first day, I was they had left me there, he up again and gain. [At this beaten with a thick plastic was drunk and he wanted oral • His mood is low. He feels point he paused as if distracted pipe. Due to the beating the sex...” depressed. If he thinks about by his memories]. pipe broke into pieces.” his life and the future he thinks there’s no point. -He’s [I asked him whether he every ITJP WITNESS 222 had enough. thought of death or suicide]. ITJP WITNESS 182 What troubles him very much “After breaking my nose they • He feels tired and weak all is that before he never heard the time. of men raping men. He is very “In the interrogation room, gave me some food and put disturbed by what happened to they had all the objects of urine in the food and forced • He mostly stays indoors. He him. He cannot accept it. If torture in the room before me to eat it. When I refused, never goes out by himself it were not for his parents he SCAR MAP OF JOSEPH CAMP because the family he’s staying would definitely commit suicide. the detainee was brought in. they inserted a thin metal with are worried he will have a SURVIVOR TORTURED IN 2009 WHEN This included, barbed wire rod into my penis.” seizure. that was put in a hollow pipe JAGATH JAYSURIYA WAS IN COMMAND • Memories of his detention and that would be inserted into ITJP WITNESS 99 the sexual abuse come into his an anus, hammers, and pliers head all the time. to pull out finger and toenails. ” SEXUAL VIOLENCE: • He feels angry.He still remembers the man’s face, the “…Places of detention man who instigated his rape. If ITJP WITNESS 67 he things of those incidents, where sexual violence immediately that man’s face comes before him. “I remember that they tied me occurred included official to the iron table face up and gazetted detention centres • Generally he feels safe in the pulled a petrol bag over my and detention centres not UK. But certain things make officially recognized, such him upset because they remind head and tightened it, I him of his past. When he saw couldn’t breathe and passed as those inside military the tall, armed police at the out. ” bases – for example Joseph airport he felt very scared… “During the final phase Certain noises, such as a door Camp, the Security Forces being slammed or loud footsteps of the armed conflict, the ITJP WITNESS 18 HQ in Vavuniya commanded by coming up the stairs, upset him, SFHQ-Vanni was headed his heart goes faster and he Major General Jagath by the then Major General “The torturers put on gloves feels agitated and afraid. Loud Jayasuriya…4.” voices, or if the TV is on loud, Jagath Jayasuriya…5” and opened a plastic can give him a headache. He can’t with the chemical in and took watch anything violent on TV a baton and soaked it in because it brings back memories 1 OISL, para. 1130 4 OISL,para. 589 and paras. 546, 553 the chemical and then used it of what happened to him in Sri Lanka. 2 OISL, para. 1131 5 OISL, para 115 to beat me. It caused a 3 OISL para. 591