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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