Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.2 Measures taken/current situation Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) There are so many memorials built by the government for Armed forces personals. Still some reaction is there even from the government when try to build a memorial in North and East. soon as possible, following consultation with families and other stakeholders. Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Ad d.2 ICJ The OMP in its interim report has recommended the Government to allow public commemoration of missing persons and erecting of monuments in their memory. ITJP See http://www.itjpsl.com/assets/press/17-May-2017-ITJP-update-statementvf.pdf http://www.itjpsl.com/assets/press/criminalising-the-dead-v1.pdf (j) Erect national and local monuments and establish commemoration days aimed specifically at remembering disappeared persons; OMP In its Interim Report, the OMP made a number of urgent recommendations for memorialisation including that the State designate a National Day for the Disappeared; restore “Ahinsakaramaya” Memorial for the Innocents in Battaramualla; following excavations preserve mass grave sites as memorial sites.118 Amnesty The OMP held a commemoration day on the International day of the Disappeared in 2018. ICJ Apart from the monument of the disappeared in Raddoluwa, Seeduwa which was erected in 2000, no new monuments have been built for the disappeared in the recent past. The Working Group welcomes information according to which the OMP organised an events to mark the International day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance and has recommended a National Day for the Disappeared. It encourages the Government to designate a National Day as soon as possible, and to erect national and local monuments following consultations with families and other stakeholders. The OMP commemorated the UN International Day of the Disappeared on August 30 2018. 87 118 OMP Interim Report, above n 2, para 48(a),(b),(c). A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 The OMP in its interim report recommended for the restoration of the ‘Ahinsakaramaya’ – Memorial of the Innocents in Battaramulla and preserve mass graves sites as memorial spaces

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