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Families in Amparai protest calling for international investigation into disappearances

Photograph:Tamil Guardian


Families of the disappeared in Amparai carried out a silent protests against the Presidential Commission on Missing Persons outside the Kalmunai divisional secretariat for two days on Monday and Tuesday.


The demonstrators showed that they had no faith in any domestic inquiry and called for an internationally monitored and United Nations assisted process to work on cases of the disappeared.

See also:

Tamils still held in secret Sri Lankan military camps  (31 Mar 2015)
Mothers of disappeared end symbolic hunger strike in Nallur (8 Mar 2015)
Families of disappeared protest in Kilinochchi  (6 Mar 2015)
Protest continues in Trincomalee (3 Mar 2015)
Tamil orgs reject Sri Lanka's Commission on Missing Persons, call for international mechanism (26 Feb 2015)

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