Sri Lanka’s disappeared, visit of Navi Pillay and another Commission of Inquiry

• by Ruki
• - on 08/30/2013 

• in Colombo, Human Rights, Human Security

On 30th August – International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances – hundreds of families of disappeared persons in Sri Lanka, most of them Tamils and from the war affected North and East, will travel to Colombo to meet with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Navatheenam Pillay, at the tail end of the High Commissioner’s visit to Sri Lanka. Several hundred demonstrated in the Northern city of Jaffna and Eastern city of Trincomalee during Ms. Pillay’s visits there on 27th – 28thAugust, and few got to meet with her in person.

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