6 March 2017 08:57 am
The Government decided to set up the Office of Missing Persons last year through an Act of Parliament but it is not operational as yet.
The move to amend the Act comes in the wake of the UN Human Rights Office calling for speedy action in ensuring transitional justice. In 2015, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution tilted, ‘Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka’ to provide a framework for transitional justice including the setting up of four specific mechanisms. The Office on Missing Persons (OMP) is one of them.(Kelum Bandara)