Tamil Disappearances in Lanka, Relatives Despair
Disappearances and extra judicial killings have become routine in Sri Lanka. Over the last twelve months more than 1000 civilians, mostly Tamils, have disappeared. Most of these enforced disappearances are extortion related abductions and now it has become a part of Sri Lanka’s war industry. Activists fear that the actual numbers of abductions are higher than reported since many have negotiated on their own and got themselves released after paying handsome ransoms.
The fact that government has not taken any useful step to stop this evil act itself proves the allegation that a section of police and armed forces are collaborating in these enforced disappearances, at least in the cases of disappearances that are taking place in the south. On April 09th families and friends of disappeared came together to collectively express their grief and passed a resolution demanding an independent international human rights mechanism to look into the fate of their loved ones. Click on to http://transcurrents.com/tamiliana/archives/310 and http://peaceandwar-ha.blogspot.com/ find more on this.
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Posted by collective at April 15, 2007 01:16 PM
