Families of the missing and disappeared protest in Jaffna

28 November 2015

Families of Tamil the missing and those who were disappeared after being detained by the Sri Lanka military protested on Saturday in Jaffna demanding all details of their possible whereabouts to be released. The protest is the latest in a series of such demonstrations on missing persons and the continued detention of Tamil political prisoners. Holding photographs of their missing children, mothers wept, urging the government to release the details of where they may be. Last week a Tamil family that had 'disappeared' after surrendering to the Sri Lankan military in May 2009 was released after being in custody for more than six years. See more here. Earlier this month, the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances  (UN WGEID) announced that it had discovered a “secret underground detention cum torture center” located in Sri Lanka and called on the government to reveal the existence of other such centers if any existed. See more here.