18 December,  |
| Awwa Umma's (L) son, Mohamed Hanifa Sirajdeen, 30, is missing since 1990 |
Family members of the missing policemen in Sri Lanka have welcomed the recommendation by a presidential panel for a full investigation into the alleged killing of six hundred policemen.
The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) has recommended that the killing of nearly 600 policemen in the east by who surrendered to Tamil Tigers in 1990.
Retired police officers and representatives of victims have told the LLRC that deputy minister Vinayagamurthy Muralitharan widely known as Karuna, the then LTTE leader of the east, was involved in the abduction and the murder of the policemen.
