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A group
of lawyers were allowed by the police to talk with the woman detained
after last Saturday's security check which raised controversial comments
from certain sections of the society. The three
member group interested in human rights and related matters had gathered
details relating to the security check near Muttiah Park. During
the meeting the woman said that her soldier husband had been killed in an
accident outside the war zone three years ago and her child had been
handed over to a children's home at Anuradhapura and since then she had
moved to Colombo where she had been engaged in prostitution, said Chief
Inspector Jagath Jagodarachchi yesterday. The
delegation who had inquired about the manner in which the security check
was conducted was told by the woman that only the top part of her salwar
kameez was raised. The check
had been carried out since she had failed to produce her national identity
card at the check point. "She failed to answer questions and stood
without making any movements," said police officials. Mr.
Jagodaarachchi said that nobody blames the LTTE for sending women suicide
bombers. "They blame police and armed forces for checking suspects to
identify these bombers". The National Joint Committee spokesman Dr. Piyasena Dissanayake said yesterday that even they don't like the idea of women and children being checked all over the country, the situation that the LTTE has created gives no choice. "People who talks of human rights of suspects never raise their voices against terrorist brutality," he said.
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