TamilNet further reports;
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About sixty Tamils taken into custody in Colombo recently are likely to be sent to Boosa detention camp shortly, sources in Colombo said.
The government established the detention camp in Boosa in 1971 to detain suspects arrested following the first insurrection by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP).

Boosa detention camp was again used to detain suspects in 1981 following the second insurrection of the JVP, sources said.

From 1987 many Tamil youths arrested in the North East were detained in Boosa camp. .."

These detention camps are used as "torture chambers" to investigate suspected tamil civilians and most of the time, human rights activists are denied access.

S. Velupillai, Vadamaradchy region describes his torture experience in a detention camp near Boosa in 1987 as follows,
 
“…Operation Liberation commenced on May 26 [1987], ended on May 31, and resulted in over 1,000 deaths and 2,000 arrests in Vadamaradchy on its 'liberation from the LTTE'. On the last day of the offensive I was arrested from one of the 16 temples specified as havens by the Forces in a notice dropped from the air across Vadamaradchy. We, the captives, were chained and shipped to a makeshift detention camp in Galle, though our destination, according to our papers, was to be the notorious Boosa Detention Camp. Later, we came to know that Boosa was already full.

We were confined to a warehouse turned into a detention camp, adjacent to the port of Galle, about 200 metres long, and 20 metres wide. There were 6 latrines, outside the camp. At a time 6 detainees would be led out at gun point to spend 6 minutes in the latrines. Most of us had no option other than defecating and urinating into a gutter deep inside the camp. The gutter overflowed. We wallowed in our own faeces and urine that flowed from the gutter, under our feet, towards the centre of the camp which teemed with worms and flies, vomit and spittle. There were no baths. None of us had bathed or changed for days. Both the camp and the inmates stank.

The camp was packed to capacity. The detainees were split into over 50 groups, with 50 in each, each headed by one of its members. I headed group 52. A barbed-wire fence divided the head and the body of the camp….” - S. Velupillai from Vadamaradchy region in the Lanka Guardian, Colombo, Oct.1, 1993; p.20

Extracts Courtesy: TamilNation