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Sri Lanka must compensate Tamil Canadian torture survivor rules UN Human Rights Committee

The UN Human Rights Committee has ruled the Sri Lankan government must "provide adequate compensation" to a Tamil man currently living in Canada, reported National Post. 
Mr Roy Samathanam filed a complaint with the Committee three years ago after he was accused of being a "Canadian Tiger" by the Sri Lankan security forces during a visit in 2007 to Sri Lanka and later imprisoned and tortured. 
“We are thrilled with the committee’s conclusions,” Matt Eisenbrandt, legal director of the CCIJ, told the National Post. 
See here for full article on the National Post. 
 

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