Sri Lanka's Office for the Missing People (OMP) announced on Sunday that a transparent investigation will be launched in the case of thousands of missing people. These people surrendered before the army during the civil war with the LTTE and since then many complaints of their disappearance are recorded with the OMP. After lasting nearly 3 decades, this civil war ended in the year 2009.
The office made for the missing people, OMP chairman said, "I have asked my colleagues to investigate the complaint related to every person surrendering before the army in a transparent and scientific way. He gave this statement after meeting with his colleagues after reaching northern Jaffna town to meet relatives of the missing people on Saturday."
The people who went missing after surrendering to the army reached the Olimp's team at Kilinochchi, from which LTTE had run their parallel government in the northern and eastern areas for nearly 30 years. They had to face furious demonstrations on behalf of the families of missing people. Although he said that despite the demonstrations hundreds of families of missing people have met with the OMP.
There is a big figure for missing people. In 2013, a commission was constituted to investigate the missing people, 25 thousand people (including 5 thousand soldiers) had been missing during the civil war. The report says that after the war of 20 thousand people is estimated to be missing. 1 lakh More people were killed when the civil war started in the 1980s.
