The Sri Lankan government will ratify the UN Convention on Enforced Disappearances when the parliament endorses it within the next few months, a senior minister said.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Mangala Samaraweera addressing a meeting of the collective of the families of missing persons in Akkaraipattu in Ampara district yesterday said the government has signed the UN Convention and it will be presented in parliament within the next two or three months.
Sri Lanka has become a signatory to the convention on December 10, 2015, five years after it entered into force on December 23, 2010, and has not yet ratified the instrument, which is crucial to the fight against impunity and the right of victims to justice and reparations. The Minister has told the families that the era of missing persons will be eradicated forever from the country.
First Bishop of the Batticaloa Diocese, Retired Bishop Joseph Ponnaiya, passed away today at the age of 74, following a brief illness.
The NPP government has been at the wheel for almost 6 months now. The time to keep looking at the rear view mirror and living in the past is about over.
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