The Office for Missing Persons gets accused of trying to conceal the truth while failing in its duty to account for a single victim of enforced disappearances.
The OMP threatens Tamil women who seek justice for their missing loved ones and forces death certificates on them, and also closed down the mass grave in Mullaitivu, said Mariyasuresh Eswari, head of the district’s association of relatives of missing persons.
Despite our repeated calls for an international probe and mechanism, the government insists on a domestic one to strengthen the OMP, while telling the world community it does much for the aggrieved families, she charged.
Speaking to the media on 18 August, Eswari said even three days earlier, women were told to be present at an inquiry and to give their signatures in return for a Rs. 200,000 compensation and death certificates.
They have been rejecting these offers all along.
Eswari claimed more skeletal remains were surfacing in many areas, and demanded the resumption of excavations at the Kokkutuduvai gravesite too.
