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Lt. Commander Krishan Welegedara, who is a key state witness of 11 youth who had disappeared at
the hands of the Navy, in a letter to the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, is reported to have said that he is being subjected to reprisals such as denial of promotions, by his employer, the Sri Lanka Navy. This case is being investigated by Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and had received widespread media coverage, and several Navy personnel had been arrested as suspects. During the investigation, Lt. Com Welegedara had claimed that he had seen the disappeared youths when they were in Navy custody and they had been beaten and they begged him to rescue them.