Published 11 June 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2377
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b2377

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Missing doctors who worked in Sri Lanka conflict zone found in government detention

Nayanah Siva

1 London

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Three doctors who went missing after working in the no fire zone in northern Sri Lanka have been detained by the Sri Lankan government and are to be tried for collaborating with the Tamil Tigers.

Yolanda Foster, a Sri Lankan researcher at Amnesty Sri International, said, "Amnesty has concerns over the lack of due process followed in the arrests of the doctors. They first went missing and only later turned up officially in custody."

The Sri Lankan government placed several restrictions on media coverage of the situation in northern Sri Lanka, and journalists were not allowed at the front line during the past few months of conflict. The doctors were reported missing on 18 May, and Amnesty International feared that they may be in danger after providing information to the international media about the humanitarian crisis in the no fire zone.

The three doctors are Thangamutha Sathiyamoorthy, regional director of . . . [Full text of this article]


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