Enforced Disappearances
வலுக்கட்டாய காணாமல் ஆக்கல்
The 6,700 / 16,700 honesty-index, the role of the Office on Missing Persons (OMP), and what UN CED standards actually require.
- · UK MPs
- · FCDO
- · All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Sri Lanka and on Tamils
- · International Day of the Disappeared (30 August) statements
- · PQs on UK engagement with the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
- · Letters pressing Sri Lanka to ratify the optional protocols to ICPPED
- · Support letters for ITJP / PEARL / OMP-facing families
Families of the Disappeared have held continuous roadside protests in the North-East since 2017. The case file is not historical — it is open and walking.
Cited Tier-A evidence is open and unresolved. UK is a co-sponsor of UN HRC accountability resolutions but implementation is uneven. Statements honour memory; evidence remains under-actioned.
Statements are backed by structured packs. Each anniversary produces tabled PQs, FCDO follow-ups, and a tracked answer. Memory becomes evidence; evidence becomes policy; policy becomes repair.
Evidence anchors
Each anchor carries a stable E-id for citation in correspondence, PQs, and parliamentary submissions.
- E.enforced-disappearances.001UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances — Sri Lanka country reports
- E.enforced-disappearances.002OHCHR OISL 2015 — patterns of enforced disappearance
- E.enforced-disappearances.003ITJP — disappearance dossiers
- E.enforced-disappearances.004PEARL — Withering Hopes and successor reports
- E.enforced-disappearances.005Office on Missing Persons (Sri Lanka) — official caseload statements
- E.enforced-disappearances.006Families of the Disappeared — continuous roadside protest (2017–present)
Policy asks
- UK Government (FCDO)Publicly press Sri Lanka to ratify the optional protocols to ICPPED and accept the competence of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances to receive individual communications.
- UK Government (FCDO)Publish UK assessment of OMP independence, mandate, and resourcing.
- UK MPsMark 30 August with a Hansard-recorded statement citing UN WGEID or OHCHR.
Sample Parliamentary Questions
- written→ FCDO
What recent representations has the Government made to Sri Lanka on the work of the Office on Missing Persons?
- written→ FCDO
Will the Government press Sri Lanka to ratify the optional protocols to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance?
- oral→ FCDO
What assessment has the Government made of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances' most recent country observations on Sri Lanka?
Pack-specific safety rules
- · Never name a disappeared person or their family member. Always route to ITJP / PEARL / OMP / OHCHR / UN WGEID for intake.
- · Cite the OMP figure verbatim, with date and source URL. Never aggregate or estimate a 'true' total — the honesty-index is the point.
- · Never frame the OMP as a closed accountability mechanism. It is one institution among several and has been credibly critiqued.
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