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  2. Murder of Seya Sadewmi - Wikipedia

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    13 September 2015 [2] Seya Sadewmi (16 September 2010 – 12 September 2015), [1] was a four-year-old Sri Lankan child who was abducted, raped and murdered. [3] The girl went missing from her house on 12 September 2015 while sleeping with her mother. After an extensive search of the premises by the police K9 unit, the naked body was discovered ...

  3. Prostitution in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Prostitution is not as widespread in Sri Lanka as in some neighbouring countries. [4] It is estimated that there are 40,000 prostitutes (known as "ගණිකාව" (Ganikawa)) [5] in the country, [6] and nearly half of them operate in Colombo. [7] Child Sex tourism [4][8] and human trafficking [9] are problems in Sri Lanka.

  4. Death of Wishma Sandamali - Wikipedia

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    Wishma Sandamali was born in Elpitiya, Sri Lanka, [1] on December 5, 1987. [10] She arrived in Japan in June 2017 on a student visa to attend a Japanese-language school in Chiba Prefecture . [ 11 ] She soon began missing classes as she suffered violence from her Sri Lankan boyfriend who was living with her, [ 12 ] and allowance from her family ...

  5. Murder of S. Vithiya - Wikipedia

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    13 May 2015. (2015-05-13) (aged 18) Pungudutivu, Sri Lanka. Known for. Murder victim. Sivaloganathan Vithiya (25 November 1996 – 13 May 2015) was an 18 year old Sri Lankan Tamil schoolgirl who was gang raped and murdered on the island of Pungudutivu in northern Sri Lanka in May 2015. [1][2][3]

  6. Kingswood College, Kandy - Wikipedia

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    Over the past century, the school has excelled in rugby, fostering a unique passion and culture for the sport, making it the most popular at Kingswood. Kandy is regarded as the Rugby City of Sri Lanka, with Kingswood Rugby contributing significantly by producing many outstanding players for both Kandy and the national teams. [40]

  7. Sexual violence against Tamils in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    e. Sexual violence against Tamils in Sri Lanka has occurred repeatedly during the island's long ethnic conflict. The first instances of rape of Tamil women by Sinhalese mobs were documented during the 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom. [5] This continued in the 1960s with the deployment of the Sri Lankan Army in Jaffna, who were reported to have molested ...

  8. Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala - Wikipedia

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    Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala (Sinhala: ජයන්ති කුරු උතුම්පාල, born 3 September 1979) is a Sri Lankan women’s rights activist with 20 years of experience and a rock climber / mountaineer for nearly as long. She has worked at national, regional, and global levels as a technical advisor, advocate, trainer, researcher ...

  9. Sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers - Wikipedia

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    UN troops in the Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Central African Republic have been accused of sexual abuse of women, men, and often children. [8]After a process concluding in 2005, UN employees were accused of sexual abuse of a "significant number" of women and girls, many under 18 and some as young as 13, in the DRC. [9]