IN PURSUIT OF AN ELUSIVE TRUTH FOR OVER A DECADE
The New Indian Express Tiruchy|December 16, 2024
AS THE NEW SRI LANKAN PRESIDENT COMMENCES HIS FIRST STATE VISIT TO INDIA, TNIE ECHOES THE EXPECTATIONS OF THE MARGINALISED LANKAN TAMILS IN RESOLVING LONG-PENDING ISSUES
IN PURSUIT OF AN ELUSIVE TRUTH FOR OVER A DECADE

(NPP) coalition, in the 1970s and 1980s. While the majority of disappearances have been attributed to the Sri Lankan state, outfits like the LTTE have also been accused of such crimes. There is no official estimate of how many people have been disappeared in Sri Lanka; reports by human rights organizations like Amnesty International place the number at between 60,000 to 100,000 between the 1970s and 2009. The Office on Missing Persons (OMP), an agency formed in 2017, received around 15,000 complaints, a majority of which were from Tamil families.

While such disappearances have largely stopped since 2009, the largest case of en masse disappearances likely occurred when the war ended on May 18, 2009.

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