Around 5,000 persons missing in the East, Commission to sit in Batticaloa

Wednesday, 05 February 2014 

The Presidential Commission probing Disappearances has said that around 5,000 Muslims have been reported missing during the period of the war.

The Commission is to also hold sittings in Batticaloa to investigate the alleged abductions or disappearances of thousands of Muslim people in the
Eastern Province. The sittings in Batticaloa will take place in the second week of March.

Head of the Commission, Maxwell Paranagama has said the Commission has received around 5,000 complaints from Muslims about disappearances during the period of the war.

A group of Muslims led by Eastern Provincial Councillor Sibly Farouk has reportedly met with the head of the Presidential Commission in Colombo and discussed Muslim people killed in the East.