Recommendations
A/HRC/33/51/Add.2
Situation during
the visit
A/HRC/33/51/Ad
d.2
Measures taken/current situation
Level of implementation and
observations (to be completed
by the WGEID)
disappearance of loved ones. In 2018, a Tamil man (whose brother had disappeared) returned
to Sri Lanka and was interrogated at airport and then released. However, after he attended a
commemoration for Tamil war dead, he was detained and tortured (including branding with a
hot metal rod) in 2018 with the result that his rib was broken.
The Tamil media has been picking up some of these allegations regarding disappearance as
reported
by
Journalists
for
Democracy
in
Sri
Lanka
at
http://www.jdslanka.org/index.php/news-features/human-rights/810-sri-lanka-twoabductions-reported-every-month
We are also aware of the following complaints made inside Sri Lanka regarding
disappearances.
2015: complaint son disappeared.
2015:complaint son disappeared.
2015 white van abduction of offspring
2015: complaint son disappeared.
2016: complaint son disappeared, detained, bribed out, fled abroad.
2016: daughter questioned at airport and now disappeared.
2016: ex LTTE husband abducted.
2016: brother of complainant who was LTTE was detained, then abducted and fled abroad.
Family in Sri Lanka being harassed.
2016: ex LTTE son abducted in white van and disappeared.
2016: son abducted in white van by 5 men; Husband assaulted in 2016.
2016: brother is assaulted by 4 ppl at his home at night who ask about ITJP witness in UK
himself abducted in 2015.
2016 wife complains her husband disappeared.
2016: mother complains he disappeared after looking for his brother who disappeared and he
was connected to LTTE. Her other son already disappeared in 2015 and no news.
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A/HRC/42/40/Add.1
2015: wife complains her husband disappeared. Goes to police.
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