Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.2 Measures taken/current situation Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Ad d.2 Amnesty Amnesty International is not aware of any new efforts on this front. During the political crisis at the end of 2018, a key criminal investigator attached to the Criminal Investigations Department with Sri Lanka Police who was pursuing cases on alleged enforced disappearances was at the risk of being transferred. Although these efforts were halted, there is a risk of political interference in the pursuit of these investigations. See Amnesty International’s statement on this.40 Amnesty International also wrote to the Prime Minister regarding the cooperation of military intelligence in the investigations into Prageeth Eknaligoda’s alleged enforced disappearance.41 Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) enforced disappearance of short duration in order to extract bribes (see 18 (c)) and calls for these cases to be urgently investigated and those responsible prosecuted. The OMP too is mandated to investigate cases of missing persons. It is unclear whether there will be two investigations in such an instance, or only one. Centre for Justice and Change Not sure of any missing persons reported to police or the OMP. Families Very recently two disappearances took place in South and quick action was taken by Police making inquiries and taking responsible Police officers into remand. From Sinhala area no disappearances cases were reported under the new regime, other than these two. There were few abductions in North and East under this government against which FoD staged protests in Colombo with some CSO s, and then the victims were reported to reappear. There were some unconfirmed information about some disappearances from North yet even the HRC has not received such complains. ICJ According to the report, a total of 14, 641 files covering all the districts were handed over to the OMP and it is now in the process of acknowledging the complaints so received. 40 37 41 https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/11/sri-lanka-dont-impede-ongoing-investigations/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa37/9734/2019/en/ A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 In paragraph 3.15 of its annual report, the OMP stated that the office has initiated a process of receiving new complaints as well as responding to and processing existing complaints that have been submitted to it by the Ministry of National Integration and Reconciliation through the distribution of a Feedback Data Sheet among families of the missing and disappeared.