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Court orders release of Vanni doctors

January 19 2010 – Tamil National

A court in Sri Lanka has ordered police to release five Tamil doctors who served in the battle zone during the last stages of war, if no evidence is found against them.
 
Colombo magistrates court also ordered the police Criminal Investigation Division (CID) to speed up the investigations that has already taken more than eight months.

The doctors who worked in Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts; T Satyamurthy, V Shanmugarajah, T Vardharajah, Ilanchelian Vallavan and N Ketheesh appeared before the court on Monday.

International and local media had to rely on these doctors serving patients in the war zone in a time where journalists and international organisations were banned from entering the area.

The doctors are accused by the government of providing false information on casualty figures to international media.

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