A 14-year-old boy was preliminarily charged with a suspected LTTE member, arrested in 1994 and held 15 years without any trail in the Welikada maximum security prison where the state sponsored massacre of 53 Tamil political prisoners occurred in July 1983, People’s Free Stage a Colombo based organization said.People’s Free Stage persons who visited Tissanayagam recently in the Welikade Prison. Tissanayagam , the journalist who is imprisoned for 20 years of hard labor for his role, said by the Sri Lanka government was that in promoting Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE), an outlawed Terrorists outfit in Sri Lanka as well as internationally.

While Tissanayagam  visits they found startling facts about, a 29-year-old Tamil political prisoner in Welikada prison that he was arrested at the age of 14 (1994). People’s Free Stage persons shocked and gathered the detailed history of the particular detainee.

The boy was arrested in 1994, there was no statement regarding his arrest given by Sri Lankan prison authorities to UNICEF or ICRC and no charges have been filed against him.

ICRC is also working closely with Tamil Political Prisoners and also visited all prisons at least once a month to provide assistance and check on the quality and accessibility of health care of prisoners.

Sri Lanka Truth