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Colombo forced Tamil doctors to lie: Dr. Varatharajah

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Frances Harrison ‏@francesharris0n 51m
Dr Varatharajah - brave #tamil gvt dr in #srilanka warzone - says #lka gvt forced him 2 lie afterwards http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=36833

 

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Colombo forced Tamil doctors to lie: Dr. Varatharajah

18 November 2013

 

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Former Regional Director of Health Services (RDHS) for Mullaiththeevu, Dr. Thurairajah Varatharajah, currently in exile in the U.S, says in video documentary aired in India's NewsX TV station that Colombo, after keeping him and four other doctors in prison at the end of the war, forced the doctors to lie to foreign media and to the Organizations accusing Sri Lanka of allegations of committing war-crimes to neutralize the allegations. Dr Varatharajah said that living under such conditions had become unbearable that he had to seek ways to get out of Sri Lanka with his family. The doctors were accused by Colombo of giving false accounts of civilian deaths during the war, and were forced to recant the figures in a well publicized news conference. Dr Varatharajah, said he is talking voluntarily to set the record straight now that he does not have to fear for his life.
 

Dr Varatharajah told NewsX that he and other doctors were able to treat non-life threatening injuries with available medicine, anesthesia, and pain-killers. However, they were not able to perform surgeries on seriously wounded due to lack of medicine. "We would have been able to save many thousands had we had appropriate medicines," the doctor said on the conditions prevailed during last months before the war ended in May 2009.

"I stayed behind to provide a much needed medical service to my people. The State imprisoned me for four months for that," Varatharajah said.

 

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=36833

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