Sri Lankan Govt Must Answer about Thousands of Disappeared Tamils. UN denied Entry.

"There are concerns that some of the disappeared girls are being used as sex slaves by the Sri Lankan security forces"

(August 30, 2012, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) On the International Day of the Disappeared on August 30, Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) called upon the Sri Lankan Government to tell the truth about the thousands of Tamils, including babies, who disappeared.

It is reported that UN Working Group on Involuntary or Enforced Disappearances repeated requests to visit Sri Lanka was denied by the Sri Lankan Government.

"If the Sri Lankan Government has nothing to hide why should they deny UN's visit?" asked Mr. Deluxon Morris, TGTE's Minister for investigation of Genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. "Thousands of families are desperately looking for their loved ones who were taken into custody by the Sri Lankan Government forces."

"There are concerns that some of the young girls who have disappeared are being used as sex slaves by the Sri Lankan security forces" said Mr. Deluxon Morris.

"Sri Lankan Government has routinely used disappearance as a tactic to terrorize the Tamil population. Sri Lanka has the unique distinction of disappearing whole families. This includes babies, women and elderly. Several Catholic and Hindu Priests also disappeared without any trace." said Deluxon Morris.

The disappearance list goes on to include journalists, human rights defenders and ordinary citizens. These people were taken from homes, Refugee (IDP) camps, hospitals, work places and from streets. Several witnessed these people being arrested by the Sri Lankan Security forces.

Several family members of the disappeared testified before the Sri Lankan Government's own Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC). In its website this commission has published only testimonies of Government officials. But it has not published testimonies from the families whose loved ones have disappeared. "This calls into question of LLRC's credibility and impartiality", said Deluxon Morris.

TGTE also urged the UN Working Group on Involuntary or Enforced Disappearances to have special focus on Sri Lanka in the upcoming UN meetings. According to this working group, it has received information of about 12,460 cases of disapperances in Sri Lanka.