Indo-Lankan lesbian lovers threaten suicide if not allowed to go to India


By Susitha Fernando

Colombo, Jun 27 (IANS): As Sri Lanka's LGBTQ+ community held a 'pride march' in Colombo this week to win rights for one of the country's most marginalised sections, in the eastern city of Akkaraipattue, a pair of Indian and Sri Lankan women, who had developed a lesbian relationship, threatened to commit suicide after being arrested for having an "abnormal relationship".

The couple had met on social media two years ago and the 24-year-old from Tamil Nadu had invited the Sri Lanka woman to India but due to the overwork in the Immigration Department with current economic crisis, she was not able to get her passport prepared.

On Monday, the Indian woman, arriving in Sri Lanka on tourist visa, had gone to Akkaraipattu, 220 km from Colombo, and had stayed overnight at her friend's house. The father of 33-year-old local woman, who is married with one child, had objected to the relationship and complained to the local police station in Akkaraipattu.

The police had arrested the two women and upon questioning, the Sri Lankan woman had said that she wanted to go to India with her friend and had threatened that both would commit suicide if they were not allowed to leave the country.

The police had produced them before Akkaraipattu Magistrate who, in turn, had ordered that the two women be examined by a psychiatrist and a report of psychiatric evaluation be prepared on them. They had been admitted to near Kalmunai hospital under the protection of prison officials and were ordered to be produced before the court on Monday with examination reports.

According to Sri Lanka's laws - which dates from the time of colonial British Ceylon, homosexuality is illegal and homosexual acts are punishable by a jail term of up to ten years.

Rights groups have regularly complained that misusing the archaic law, police, government workers and others severely harass, intimidate, extort money and even carried out physical and sexual assault on members of the LGBTQ community. They had been demanding the immediate change of laws.

 

  

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  • Daniel, Mangalore

    Mon, Jun 27 2022

    For 1% or less of these, 99% should burn from fire from sky or from following Divine anger ? Asteroids 7 on 27 June, 3 on 28 June and on average 2 or more of these asteroids daily are roaming close to earth as per international minorplanetcenter watch... "The Just Wrath of God will be unloaded upon those nations that have approved abortion, gender ideology, same-sex couple marriages, euthanasia; as well as where injustice and corruption reign, where evil and sin have increased"

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  • NSK, Udupi

    Mon, Jun 27 2022

    What ludicrous sentiments are you expressing, my friend? Let us have some compassion for these people who are only slightly different from you and I.

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  • Daniel, Mangalore

    Mon, Jun 27 2022

    Same Sex, abortion, no gender all elite and communist chinese divide and rule ideology. To divide the family, create liberals, a modern name for communist. Finally bring virus and slow Euthanising vaccines for depopulation and mRNA high tech human mind control, decimate much population for better control and then ruthlessly rule the humanity! ///// The old phrase: "Give your little finger to other people and they take the whole hand." Elite are planning for ultimate hack or scam with high tech mRNA vaccines? Dr Yuval Noah Harari claims humans are now hackable animals and human free will is over. Also in another video he says at the age of 21 he found that he is gay. So few, 1or 2 percent gays control whole humanity now ? His hack / scam claim videos titled humans are now hackable animals and human free will is over available on youtube.

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