Sri Lanka: Human rights worker abducted and found dead
Event- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Initial Date
- Feb 11, 2010
- Event Description
On 11 February 2010, Mr. Pattani Razeek, Managing Trustee of the Community Trust Fund (CTF) and represented CTF in the executive committee of FORUM-ASIA was abducted . Mr. Razeek was last seen in Polonnaruwa, a town in the North-Central Province of Sri Lanka. In the afternoon of 11 February 2010, Mr. Razeek, was in Polonnaruwa in a van together with other staff of his organization, the Community Trust Fund (CTF), on their way home from a mission when their van was intercepted by another vehicle, a white van. In Sri Lanka, "white vans' have been known to be the preferred vehicles of groups responsible for abductions and disappearances. Mr. Razeek alighted from their vehicle, approached the men in the white van and exchanged greetings in Arabic with them, indicating that the men are Muslim. After talking to them for some minutes, Mr. Razeek went back to his colleagues and told them that he will be joining the group in the white van that according to him was heading to the Eastern provincial town of Valaichchenai. He assured his colleagues that he will be meeting up with them later. After much delay in the police investigation, his body was only found and exhumed on 29 July 2011 by the police in Kavathamunai, Oddamavadi, Valaichenai. P. Razeek was the.Razeek's body was sent to Batticaloa Hospital on 28 July 2011 for post-mortem. The post-mortem was completed on 2 August 2011 with the body released to the family on the same day. Samples of Mr. Razeek teeth, skin, hair, etc were taken by the Colombo Crimes Division and sent to the Gene Tech lab for DNA testing on 4 August 201. Mr. Razeek's son, Riskhan supplied blood to the Gene Tech Lab on 8 August 2011. Stomach samples from Mr. Razeek's body were sent to the Government Analyst on 5 August 2011.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Violation
- Abduction/Kidnapping
- Death
- Source
[Prachatai] (https://prachatai.com/english/node/2685)
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 7.93286
Longitude: 81.00809
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 11 February 2010, Mr. Pattani Razeek, Managing Trustee of the Community Trust Fund (CTF) and represented CTF in the executive committee of FORUM-ASIA was abducted . Mr. Razeek was last seen in Polonnaruwa, a town in the North-Central Province of Sri Lanka. In the afternoon of 11 February 2010, Mr. Razeek, was in Polonnaruwa in a van together with other staff of his organization, the Community Trust Fund (CTF), on their way home from a mission when their van was intercepted by another vehicle, a white van. In Sri Lanka, __�white vans' have been known to be the preferred vehicles of groups responsible for abductions and disappearances. Mr. Razeek alighted from their vehicle, approached the men in the white van and exchanged greetings in Arabic with them, indicating that the men are Muslim. After talking to them for some minutes, Mr. Razeek went back to his colleagues and told them that he will be joining the group in the white van that according to him was heading to the Eastern provincial town of Valaichchenai. He assured his colleagues that he will be meeting up with them later. After much delay in the police investigation, his body was only found and exhumed on 29 July 2011 by the police in Kavathamunai, Oddamavadi, Valaichenai. P. Razeek was the.Razeek's body was sent to Batticaloa Hospital on 28 July 2011 for post-mortem. The post-mortem was completed on 2 August 2011 with the body released to the family on the same day. Samples of Mr. Razeek teeth, skin, hair, etc were taken by the Colombo Crimes Division and sent to the Gene Tech lab for DNA testing on 4 August 201. Mr. Razeek's son, Riskhan supplied blood to the Gene Tech Lab on 8 August 2011. Stomach samples from Mr. Razeek's body were sent to the Government Analyst on 5 August 2011.