MFA urge to share details of missing persons with OMP

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged anyone in Sri Lanka or overseas to kindly share the details pertaining to persons whose names have been listed by the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) and the circumstances under which they went missing with the Office on Missing Persons (OMP), Ministry said in a statement. 

This announcement came as the attention of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been drawn to a list of names published online by the ITJP. According to the ITJP, this list, which presently consists of 351 names and can be accessed at http://www.disappearance.itjpsl.com/#lang=english is of persons who are alleged to have disappeared while in the custody of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces in May 2009.

The Office on Missing Persons (OMP) which has been established by an Act of Parliament (Act No. 14 of 2016 as amended by Act No. 09 of 2017)[1] is the permanent and independent entity in Sri Lanka that is vested with the tasks of, inter alia, searching and tracing of missing persons and clarifying the circumstances in which such persons went missing, and their fate; making recommendations to the relevant authorities towards reducing the incidents of missing persons; protecting the rights and interests of missing persons and their relatives; and identifying proper avenues of redress to which such missing persons or their relatives may have recourse.