Relatives of disappeared in N&E call for Intn't probe

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Relatives of enforced disappeared persons staged protests today throughout North and East provinces demanding an international probe into the investigations to track their missing loved ones.

In view of International Day of Enforced Disappearances which falls today, the relatives of disappeared in Jaffna, Mullathivu, Kilinochchi, Mannar, Batticaloa and Vavuniya organized the protest marches.

At the end of the protest a petition was handed over to a representative of the committee on public consultations on the mechanisms for accountability, truth, reparations and non-recurrence in Sri Lanka calling for an international mechanism to probe disappearances.

“The security of relatives of missing persons and Human Rights defenders should be ensured. In order to make sure the initiatives taken to Transnational Justice, the state violence mechanisms currently in place should be dropped for proper implementation,” the petition noted.

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