Speaker signs Office of Missing Persons Act
The Speaker of Parliament Karu Jayasuriya has signed the Bill establishing the Office of Missing Persons, the Speaker’s Office said.
The parliament in Sri Lanka on August 11 passed a law to establish an office to trace people who disappeared during a 26-year war and another insurrection amid protests by former leader Mahinda Rajapaksa’s supporters.
The Office on Missing Persons (Establishment, Administration and Discharge of Functions) was passed without a vote. It will enable independent investigations of thousands of cases of missing people, measures to trace them and protection of their rights and interests and those of their relatives.
The office of missing persons will trace those disappeared during the war against the LTTE and an armed revolt by a radical Marxist group against the government in 1987-89.
After the Speaker signed the Bill, it began to function as a law with immediate effect.
The Office on Missing Persons will help search for and trace missing persons and submit recommendations to authorities to take measures on missing persons, protect the rights of missing persons and their relatives, identify channels that missing persons and their relatives can obtain reliefs and inform them the same.
The office will also collate data related to missing persons obtained by Government institutions and other institutions and centralise all available data within its database.
(Ada Derana)
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I don’t think these jokers have any desire to find the missing persons from 1987 -89. All they want to do is find another way to blame all the missing Tamils who would have died fighting against the Sri Lanka Armed Forces on MR and please west. Bloody traitors who have forgotten who saved us from the LTTE.
Fernando,
Who “saved” Sri Lanka from the “Terrorists”?
Definitely not the Kurakkan Satakaya Billionaires; it was the Jewish Freemason Lobby in the US which instructed the CIA/FBI/Pentagon to provide logistical support and intelligence to enable the end of Uncle Velu and His Cyanide wearing boys and Girls.
Yakada Master. That is a new line. And what the F—k were our soldiers doing at the front and if that is the case then why is MR to blame for war crimes. Shameless Sri Lankans are coming up with new gossip and our stupid people believe all the bull shit. Sad!!!!!
Couple of months before the war ended in May 2009, the CIA shared intelligence information to SL on SL’s maritime boundary intrusion by LTTE arms ships. SL Navy destroyed LTTE arms supply based on this intelligence. That was the last nail in LTTE’s coffin.
Had adequate maritime protection been instituted at that point in time to prevent further LTTE arms intrusions, the LTTE would have starved to death of weaponry.
The eradication of the human shield covering the last standing ‘soldiers’ of the LTTE would not have been necessary. The strategy to clear the last standing soldier was poorly conceived and this act is the cause for all the problems beseeching GOSL.
BTW, the Chief Arms Procurer of the LTTE continues to be a great pal of the Sinhala Government. Following capture, he was housed under protection in Visumpaya where Late Anura Bandaranayake once resided as the Speaker of Parliament. The Chief Arms procurer continues to flouring under GOSL protection in Killinochchi, even today, under MR2 regime.
A former LTTE second-in-command who slaughtered 600 policemen was made a Deputy Minister and Vice President of Sinhala Political Party under MR1. At present, under MR2, this guy continues to terrorise the Easterners.
Shame on you guys.