NDP MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan held by 'terrorism' investigators in Sri Lanka Tuesday Dec 31,2013

Military officers in Sri Lanka apparently placed an NDP MP visiting the Indian Ocean island under house arrest Tuesday Dec 31,2013, confining Rathika Sitsabaiesan to her hotel, according to disputed news reports

The reports said Sitsabaiesan was met at her hotel in Jaffna, the capital of Sri Lanka's Northern Province, by a military official from the Sri Lankan "Terrorist Investigation Department" (TID) Tuesday evening after she had visited some Tamil-dominated areas in the north part of the country.