A/HRC/7/3/Add.6 page 51 103. Kendemarakilega Anura Silva, aged 23. He was arrested by the police on 28 March 2007 at 4 p.m. in Ampara and was brought to Ampara Police Station where he was detained for one month and five days. Then he was transferred to Thirukovil Police Station. The police officers brought him to the kitchen in order to hide him from his relatives. He was blindfolded, handcuffed behind his back and shackled. A rope was bound around his body on which he was suspended. He was beaten with cricket batons all over his body. After the beatings he was seated and tied to the window. Two police officers, SI Karunatileka and Kaluarachchi, said that they were going to prove that he was a member of the LTTE. They heated a flat metal bar, which was approximately as long as an arm and thick as a finger, with which he was burned on his legs. His wife later informed the ICRC. A representative came five days later and spoke to him in private. He told her of the torture and she promised to come back after three days. In the meantime, officer Karunatileka threatened him not to complain to her again. In May he was brought to Boosa. Officer Nishanta at Boosa claimed that the burning marks were in fact bullet wounds and accused him of being a member of the LTTE. In the following three months he was tortured and beaten in regular intervals. One night in July, three drunken policemen tortured him with a soldering iron. He still has two dozen burning marks on his chest. One of the policemen was Nishanta, the others were called Nanyakkara and Silva. Forensic evidence corroborated his allegations. 104. The Special Rapporteur recommends that Mr. Kendemarakilega Anura Silva, who was extremely depressive and suicidal during the interview, receive proper medical and psychiatric rehabilitation and be released. 105. Detainees, male. The two detainees reported to the Special Rapporteur that they were suspended by their thumbs in the respective army camps where they were held. After their description of the ill-treatment, the forensic doctor examined their thumbs, which in one case showed thin linear scarring consistent with suspension by wire as alleged. Both described very severe pain on suspension and loss of consciousness from pain, with apparent dislocation of the thumb joints. Both gave similar accounts of the physical effects of the alleged ill-treatment on their ability to use their thumbs for such day-to-day activities as eating and holding drink containers. On examination six and three months, respectively, after the events, both displayed weakness of the thumbs in pinching and gripping movements but no weakness of the other digits, and both complained of the continuing practical effects of this on day-to-day life. -----