Measures taken/current situation Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Ad d.2 Also witness testimony and the court documents from the “11 schoolboy” naval disappearance case in Colombo show a very large number of naval officials knew about the illegal detention site in Trincomalee where more than 11 people disappeared. Meanwhile, in February 2019 the former Navy Commander, Wasantha Karannagoda, who is a suspect in this case, applied to the Supreme Court for an order to prevent his arrest on the grounds that he was a “war hero.”12 The Supreme Court issued an order preventing the police from arresting him.13 He has not been arrested since. Furthermore the navy “11 Schoolboy case” court documents indicate the suspects from the navy were threatening and trying to kill the chief CID police investigator in the case, Nishantha de Silva, while they were in the prison hospital. This is problematic if the alleged perpetrators of enforced disappearance are threatening the life of the investigating police officer. Moreover, a plaintiff in the civil case filed against Gotabaya Rajapaksa in California on 27 June 2019 alleged that police officer Nishantha de Silva had personally tortured him: on two occasions . This does not bode well for witness protection or hopes of a domestic remedy when this is the policeman handling all the emblematic cases: http://www.itjpsl.com/assets/press/Rajapaksa-First-Amended-Complaint-Docket-No-356.26.19.pdf  Ongoing Abductions The ITJP has documented 76 cases of torture between 2015-17 in Sri Lanka (and one case in 2018 and one in 2019) in which the vast majority of victims were abducted and detained illegally without their families knowing where they were. Technically these are disappearance cases though the victims have now been released on payment of a bribe. There has been no instruction to stop this practice issued to the security services. There has been instead widespread denial that it is still occurring. In the interest of stemming that denial once and for all, we refer you to paragraph 56 of the High Commissioner’s March 2019 report A/HRC/40/23 to the Human Rights Council. 12 13 https://twitter.com/azzamameen/status/1100009350771425280?lang=en http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/63139 https://menafn.com/1098172626/Karannagoda-files-FR-against-moves-to-arrest-him http://www.adaderana.lk/news/53658/sc-issues-order-preventing-wasantha-karannagodas-arrest Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 16 Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.2