Hon. Justice Tellipalai Wanarajah Rajaratnam's son Attorney-at-law Mr.T.C. Rajaratnam, represented for free of cost in the High Court of Colombo.
Exchange of letters with Amnesty International regarding my son's release was published in the Saturday Review News paper on 12 Sep 1987
Mother Appeals To AI To Help Release Son
We publish here an exchange of letters between Amnesty International and a detainee's mother. The letters are self-explanatory.
Mrs. Valliammai Subramaniam
Kandamai
Tholpuram
Chulipuram
13th August 1987
Dear Madam,
As you know on 29th July Sri Lanka and India reached an agreement on the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka. Part of the agreement is an amnesty the Sri Lankan Government has announced for all detained, charged and convicted political prisoners held under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and Emergency Regulations. As of writing the first hundreds of political prisoners are being released and returned to northern Sri Lanka.
Amnesty International would like to monitor the release program as closely as possible, since its members have been working on behalf of many prisoners detained with armed conflict.
Kindly do inform us, as soon as possible, whether Sathiarajan Subramaniam, your son, has been included in the release program and confirm his safe return home. Should this be at all possible we would like also to receive detailed accounts of his arrest and detention, and the conditions in which he was held and interrogated.
Yours sincerely,
Yvonne Terlingen
Asia Research Department
Amnesty International
