Situation during
the visit
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Measures taken/current situation
which will include all particulars concerning missing persons20 and take all necessary steps
including technical safeguards to ensure the security of such a database. 21 The OMP has
created a temporary database and has begun the process of consolidating different types of
data related to missing and disappeared persons.
In March 2018 the Ministry of National Integration and Reconciliation forwarded 14,641
Feedback Data Sheets containing information relating to missing and disappeared persons. As
of 31st April 2019, 4407 Data Sheets have been processed by the OMP.
See also response to recommendation 82(a).
Amnesty
(i),(ii): Measures under the mandate of the Office on Missing Persons (OMP), including the
set up a database of “missing persons”
Centre for Justice and Change
OMP promised to get a register but still no work commenced.
.Families of the disappeared
Nothing- But the government indicates that OMP is doing that.
ICJ
While Section 15 (4) of Act on Enforced Disappearance provides for official registers of
‘persons deprived of liberty’, it does not specifically make reference to ‘forcibly disappeared
persons.’
ITJP
Victims abroad do not enjoy these rights and have been excluded in the design of OMP
programmes. It is assumed because they are asylum seekers they are receiving rehabilitation
services which is actually not true (see our report submitted to the GOSL’s Consultation Task
Force - http://www.itjpsl.com/reports/forgotten-report) . The exiled victims are also clumped
into one general box of “diaspora” even though someone who fled in 2018 has a very different
profile from a person who left in 1983.
Many of the enforced disappeared in 2009 were LTTE cadres – their families are often scared
to come forward lest it draw attention to other siblings who were in the LTTE but not
“rehabilitated” or identified yet.
Please see: http://www.disappearance.itjpsl.com/#lang=english which lists 18 May 2009
disappeared by name and with photos where available. We continue to receive information
from families around the world for this site.
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21
OMP Act, above n 16, Section 13(h).
OMP Act, above n 16, Section 15(3).
Level of implementation and
observations (to be completed
by the WGEID)
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Recommendations
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