11,000 complaints regarding disappearances, investigations to be completed in two years

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Colombo, Jan. 24 (Daily Mirror) - Justice Minister Harshana Nanayakkara said that there are as many as 11,000 complaints regarding missing persons, and investigations into them will be completed within two years.

Making remarks to the press after a workshop, he said there are complaints about the lack of progress in investigations.

However, he said that the previous governments should be held responsible for it, but not the Office of Missing Persons (OMP). He said financial allocations had been made to train 375 officials attached to the OMP.

The Minister said that investigations into 5,000 complaints would be completed this year.

“We will investigate into disappearances both in the north and the south,” he said.

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PunkaLatha Saturday, 24 January 2026 10:36 AM

How many of them are getting buried by those who were 'enslaved' by the figures from the previous regimes?

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Dr Tissa Fernando Saturday, 24 January 2026 10:49 AM

Most of those are probably living in western countries collecting funds for their exclusive ethnically clean private land in the island of Sri Lanka

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PEOPLE KEEP PRAYING AND NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF PRAYER. Sunday, 25 January 2026 11:59 PM

WHAT A LOAD OF BULLDUST!!. HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THE DAYS OF THE WHITE VANS!!. THE ONLY CLEANSING THE GOVT SHOULD DO IS CORRUPTION, POLITICS WHILE IMPLEMENTING THEIR MANIFESTO PROMISES. NO AMOUNT OF MOUTHING OFF TO DISTRACT THE GOVT WILL WORK, THEY WILL FOCUS ON WHAT NEEDS TO BE CLENSED AND GET THE JOB DONE. POLITICS IN THE PAST HAS BEEN A MONEY MAKING BUSINESS WHERE SOME POLITICIANS FEATHERED THEIR NESTS, FAMILY MEMBERS AND THEIR STOOGES WHO WERE USED IN THE PROCESS. SAD BUT WE HAVE HAD MANY HONEST POLITICIANS WITH INTEGRITY IN THE PAST WHO UNFORTUNATELY HAD NO SAY IN WHAT WENT ON DURING THE DECADES AND DECADES OF THE PAST GOVT/S.

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Dam Saturday, 24 January 2026 11:50 AM

So do it. That's your responsibility. Don't give bloody excuses

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Neel Ahmed Saturday, 24 January 2026 12:55 PM

This minister is not capable to handle the such a responsibile post AKD should think twice about him Otherwise this will be the his last chance

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Cheers Sunday, 25 January 2026 05:30 AM

This is a puppet minister of anura kumara who has no clue its an insult to the justice department as well

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ICC Monday, 26 January 2026 11:12 PM

11, 000 DISAPPERANCES , WHY DID IT HAPPEN ? BECAUSE TERRORISM PREVENTION ACT . ( TPA) 0

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