Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Sri Lanka rally to protest against disappearances...

Lalith Weeraraj and Kugan Muruganathan organised rallies against political disappearances before being apparently abducted in the north of the country.

The rally was held on the second anniversary of their disappearance.

The crowd blamed the government and security forces, but they have always denied involvement.

Another demonstration on human rights, in the east of the country, was attacked by government supporters leaving one of its organisers injured: he was admitted to hospital.

Sri Lanka has one of the world's highest tallies of disappeared people - the United Nations says there are more than 5,000 cases, and that number refers only to those that have been registered.

Many of these date from the 1980s and 1990s but activists say hundreds of people, mostly ethnic minority Tamils, disappeared at the time of the government's war victory against the Tamil Tigers in 2009, including many who apparently vanished after surrendering to government forces or crossing to government-held territory. Full story...

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