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by Ranga Jayasuriya

Another Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) employee who was among the 10 TRO personnel reportedly adducted by an armed group has returned home. The TRO's version of the abduction saga was contested by the police and the Scandinavian truce monitors.

Ms. Dosini who was among the five TRO personnel said to be abducted on Sunday night returned to her family Friday. She was the third TRO employee to be "released" by the abductors.

TRO spokesman Arjunan Ethirveerasingham told the Sunday Observer that Dosini returned to her family in Chenkalady and TRO was in contact with her.

Meanwhile Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission chief Hagrup Haukland contested the TRO's version that the alleged abduction of the five TRO employees on Sunday night took place near the Welikanda army camp.

The TRO earlier said the abduction took place 100 meters from the army camp.

"That is not true. we visited the scene of the abduction and it is about 5 to 10 minutes drive from the camp," he said.

Haukland said the TRO lodged complaints on both abductions and the truce monitors interviewed the three returnees and accompanied them to the Batticaloa police to make a statement.

"They said they were abducted," he said referring to the statement by the women.

The TRO spokesman said the two women who went to the Batticaloa police were detained for 22 hours and that they were not allowed to read the statement, but were asked to sign it and that their request for a copy of the statement was turned down.

"We have lodged a complaint at the SLMM and the National Human Rights Commission."Ethirveerasingham said.

The SLMM chief Haukland however rejected the TRO allegation and said the police told him that the women were asked to remain in the police station at night for security reasons.

"They went to Batticaloa police at 5 p.m. and were interviewed till 11. Police told us they were asked to remain in the police station till the morning due to security reasons," he said.

He said he was not aware whether the TRO had complained to the SLMM that the women were not allowed to read their statement before signing it.

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