Forced disappearance Stuck in the same paradigm
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2015-11-10
A quarter century since it began, the issue of missing persons is still a problem, that has left more questions than answers. As the website of the Presidential Commission to Investigate into Complaints Regarding Missing Persons itself states, 23,249 complaints have been made regarding disappearances as at October 23, 2015; 18,249 by civilians and 5,000 by security forces. That’s a minimum of 0.11% of the total population of Sri Lanka having disappeared. Take a minute and think of the fact that a minimum of 23,249 people have disappeared in Sri Lanka; disappeared from their homes without a trace. The scarier fact is that since June 10, 1990 no solution has been found to the problem.
2015-11-10A quarter century since it began, the issue of missing persons is still a problem, that has left more questions than answers. As the website of the Presidential Commission to Investigate into Complaints Regarding Missing Persons itself states, 23,249 complaints have been made regarding disappearances as at October 23, 2015; 18,249 by civilians and 5,000 by security forces. That’s a minimum of 0.11% of the total population of Sri Lanka having disappeared. Take a minute and think of the fact that a minimum of 23,249 people have disappeared in Sri Lanka; disappeared from their homes without a trace. The scarier fact is that since June 10, 1990 no solution has been found to the problem.
