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1.This is #tamil doctor . @drvarathan1 giving a TV interview on 23 April 2009 in the war zone in #srilanka. He spoke to BBC, Al Jaz. & many others. His team saved thousands of lives.
[He was later forced to flee his country & is now treating Covid patients in the USA].
![Thread. 1.This is #tamil doctor . @drvarathan1 giving a TV interview on 23 April 2009 in the war zone in #srilanka. He spoke to BBC, Al Jaz. & many others. His team saved thousands of lives.[He was later forced to flee his country & is now treating Covid patients in the USA].](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZaduEcXsAA8K0s.jpg "Thread. 1.This is #tamil doctor . @drvarathan1 giving a TV interview on 23 April 2009 in the war zone in #srilanka. He spoke to BBC, Al Jaz. & many others. His team saved thousands of lives.[He was later forced to flee his country & is now treating Covid patients in the USA].")
1.This is #tamil doctor . @drvarathan1 giving a TV interview on 23 April 2009 in the war zone in #srilanka. He spoke to BBC, Al Jaz. & many others. His team saved thousands of lives.
[He was later forced to flee his country & is now treating Covid patients in the USA].
2. At the end of the war he was v badly injured by a shell that hit the compound of his clinic. Amnesty issued this stmt. saying he’d disappeared - https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/sri-lanka-three-doctors-who-helped-bbc-now-missing
but he was in a cell in Kilinochchi for a week without medical treatment as his lung filled with blood.
but he was in a cell in Kilinochchi for a week without medical treatment as his lung filled with blood.
3. He was transferred to the notorious 4th floor (CID HQ) and in July 2009 forced to participate in a staged press conference with his arm in a sling. He had been trained to deny everything he’d told the media before.
His wife was threatened, he was threatened, he was denied essential surgery on his arm and hand (necessary for a surgeon) - he says he learned by heart the fake answers to give at the news conference. He was forced to deny the extent of civilian casualties in the war.
5. You can watch all the news conference online
It was 5 years before @drvarathan1 escaped & could put the record straight - to . @Callum_Macrae
https://www.channel4.com/news/sri-lanka-war-crimes-inquiry-doctor-varatharajah-thariajah
and 6 before he told the story of the news conference.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02w11dv
It was 5 years before @drvarathan1 escaped & could put the record straight - to . @Callum_Macrae
https://www.channel4.com/news/sri-lanka-war-crimes-inquiry-doctor-varatharajah-thariajah
and 6 before he told the story of the news conference.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02w11dv
Now he’s identified the military intelligence officer whom he alleges forced him to give false testimony - Tuan Suresh Sallay - director of #lka State Intelligence Service & recently promoted to Major General. [under last gov. a diplomat in Kuala Lumpur].
![Now he’s identified the military intelligence officer whom he alleges forced him to give false testimony - Tuan Suresh Sallay - director of #lka State Intelligence Service & recently promoted to Major General. [under last gov. a diplomat in Kuala Lumpur].](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZaiv9GWAAEzof8.png "Now he’s identified the military intelligence officer whom he alleges forced him to give false testimony - Tuan Suresh Sallay - director of #lka State Intelligence Service & recently promoted to Major General. [under last gov. a diplomat in Kuala Lumpur].")
Our Press Release in English, #tamil and #sinhala:
https://itjpsl.com/assets/press/English-PRESS-RELEASE-1-june-2020Suresh-Sallay-promotion.pdf#english
https://itjpsl.com/assets/press/PRESS-RELEASE-1-june-2020Suresh-Sallay-promotion-in-Tamil.pdf#english
https://itjpsl.com/assets/press/PRESS-RELEASE-Suresh-Sallay-promotion-Sinhala.pdf#english
https://itjpsl.com/assets/press/English-PRESS-RELEASE-1-june-2020Suresh-Sallay-promotion.pdf#english
https://itjpsl.com/assets/press/PRESS-RELEASE-1-june-2020Suresh-Sallay-promotion-in-Tamil.pdf#english
https://itjpsl.com/assets/press/PRESS-RELEASE-Suresh-Sallay-promotion-Sinhala.pdf#english
