Sri Lanka civil war: Missing persons are dead, says Gotabaya
Thousands of personsreported missing since the time of Sri Lanka’s civil war are “actually dead”, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said.
The President made the remark in a recent meeting with the UN Resident Coordinator, according to a statement from his office. Outlining his plans to address the issue of missing persons, “he explained that these missing persons are actually dead. Most of them had been taken by the LTTE or forcibly conscripted. The families of the missing attest to it. However, they do not know what has become of them and so claim them to be missing,” the statement said. After the “necessary investigations”, steps would be taken to issue death certificates of the missing persons, while their families would be supported, the official media release said.
Source: The Hindu
