The Northern Provincial Councillor Ananthy Sasitharan called on the Sri Lankan government to release all those arbitrarily detained since the end of the armed ethnic conflict in 2009.
The letter, which was addressed to Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena, and copied to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, called on Sri Lanka’s government to:
1.Discharge the detainees who have been under detention for the last 05 years without any proven charges, trails and even access for their families to see, on Presidential Pardon and common amnesty.
2.Ensure the so-called rehabilitated persons, and persons who lost the heads of family, the main livelihood winners, are given a permanent livelihood means through the Northern Provincial Council
3.Speed up the probes into the subject of the persons forced to disappear and table down a permanent response to their families.See full letter here.