Sri Lanka - Commission For Omissions
| by S. V. Kirubaharan
“…………We have a right to tell this to the world. Tears of innocent grieving mothers compel us to tell their story of pain and sorrow to the world. We will do it today, tomorrow and always. Remember that.“– (Mahinda Rajapaksa said in the Parliament in January 1991. Hansard report 25.01.1991)
( August 4, 2014, Paris, Sri Lanka Guardian) Mahinda Rajapaksa, who went to Geneva to attend the 31st Session of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances – WGEID, in September 1990, was forced to appoint a Presidential Commission Investigating Cases of Missing Persons on 14 August 2013. This was initially mandated to inquire into and report on alleged abductions or disappearances during the period June 10, 1990, to May 19, 2009.
