I don't know. It's certainly not absolutely implausible, and it's certainly something that we need to be worried about and to be careful to look at as closely as we can. But I think there are enough problems in Sri Lanka, enough very serious and grave human rights problems for all communities, but particularly for Tamils in the north, that we need to be careful not to go beyond what we already have evidence of.
Certainly, as I've said before, women in the north are particularly vulnerable, economically and socially, and vulnerable to violence. That's a structural vulnerability, given the heavy military presence, the ethnic imbalances in power, the economic weakness of women, and all the other sorts of negative factors in the north.
Is it—I think this is your basic question—plausible that sexual violence is being used as part of a plan to change the nature of the north and to weaken the Tamil people? I don't know. I don't think the evidence is there yet that it is part and parcel of a plan, but I don't think it needs to be for it already to be a significant enough problem that there needs to be much more international awareness and active work by all international agencies that work in the north.
While there are many fewer than there used to be, there are still many UN and INGO humanitarian agencies that work in the north. There are development agencies that work in the north. They need to be doing much more, I think, to use their presence to find out what's going on and to speak out about what they can find out about what's going on.