Sri Lankan Army officers from the operational camp of the occupying military in Vanni, have been enforcing the acceptance of death certificates on to families of missing persons in the Mullaitheevu district.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, TNA MP Suresh Premachandran noted that some of the families say that they personally handed over their living family members at a military check post during the final hours of the 2009 war and are now being forced to sign death certificates.
Mr Premachandran went on to say “If these members were handed over to the SLA, then the Sri Lankan military is answerable for their death”
Sources have told TamilNet that members of families of the missing persons were being summoned to the police stations and forced to sign on plain papers.
The SLA reportedly told families that if a person was reported missing for more than 3 years they would be considered dead.
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