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Enforced Disappearances; A Problem Sri Lanka Seeking Solutions for Five Decades

(To mark the 35th Annual Commemoration of the Disappeared) By Philip Dissanayake, Executive Director, Right to Life Human Rights Centre Sri Lanka has a long history of enforced disappearances. The period from the 1970s until the end of the civil war in 2009 is cited as a time when disappearances were severely reported in the […]

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35 Years Lost: A Mother’s Fight for Justice in Sri Lanka’s Disappearance Crisis

  Kantale, Sri Lanka – For 35 heart-wrenching years, Nagamma, now 67, has lived with a single question: What happened to my family? Yesterday (17th), her story came to light during a legal aid program in Kantale’s Peraru village, shedding light on decades of unresolved disappearances and the unrelenting struggle for justice. Nagamma’s husband, Sokkalingam,

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Relatives of Tamil disappeared denounce both Sri Lanka government and UN

Tamil mothers who commemorated the International Day Against Disappearances, remembering those who went missing 12 years ago, have protested against the Sri Lankan government as well as the United Nations for failing to find their loved ones.Mothers in the north protested in their homes on August 30 as the government locked up the entire island

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