LTTE DISAPPEARED HUNDREDS - FORCES NONE
Monday, 09th June 2014
- Not a single complaint against Security Forces
- 5,000 complaints from relatives of missing Forces personnel
A majority of complaints on disappearance of persons in the East have been received against the LTTE, Presidential Commission on Missing Persons Chairman retired Judge Maxwell Paranagama said.
Most complainants said their relatives disappeared while visiting Kalmunai or Kattankudy on business matters. Not a single complaint has been lodged against the Security Forces, he said.
The Presidential Commission inquiring into Missing Persons is meeting in Batticaloa to inquire into complaints on disappeared persons. Many complaints lodged by the people were taken up for hearing at the Kattankudy Divisional Secretariat. The Commission is probing complaints made on persons who had gone missing after 1990.
Since the establishment of the Commission on August 15, 2013, the Commission up to date has received in excess of 18,590 complaints inclusive of 5,000 complaints from relatives of missing Security Forces personnel.
The Commission has since then held public sittings during January, February and March in Killinochchi, Jaffna and Batticaloa. During these sittings, the Commission has heard oral evidence of 462 complainants. The recorded evidences of these complainants are being analysed for further investigations through an independent investigative team.
The Commission has held regular meetings with members of the International Committee of Red Cross and the United Nations Development Program and have obtained their views and experiences gained in other parts of the world particularly on matters relating to missing persons at the end of a conflict.
The Presidential Commission hearings in Batticaloa will continue until today. Thereafter, the Commission will move to Mullaitivu.
From : http://www.dailynews.lk:8082/?q=local/ltte-disappeared-hundreds-forces-none
