Tamil women coerced into SL army says C.V. Wigneswaran

Tamil women are being coerced to join the Sri Lankan military said the Northern Province's Chief Minister, CV Wigneswaran, reports the Uthayan.

Addressing an event for International Women's Day in Jaffna yesterday, Wigneswaran, said the Sri Lankan army was going into their houses coercing Tamil women, who were too afraid to refuse, to join.

Questioning why the Sri Lankan army were only calling on Tamil women to join, and not men, the Chief Minister stressed that Tamil women faced significant insecurity given the extensive militarisation of the North-East.

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