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State Responsibility for "Disappearances" and Abductions in Sri Lanka
Map of Sri Lanka
I. Summary
Who Is Responsible?
Who Is Being Targeted?
Unpunished Crimes
The Government's Response
International Response
Key Recommendations
Note on Methodology
II. Background
The armed conflict
History of "disappearances" in Sri
Lanka
III. Legal Framework
Sri Lanka's obligations under
international law..
Prohibition of enforced disappearances
Duty to investigate and to establish
accountability
Redress for victims
Sri Lankan national law..
IV. Perpetrators and Victims
Perpetrators
Sri Lankan armed forces
Sri Lankan police
Pro-government armed groups
Karuna group
Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP)
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Victims
V. Patterns of "disappearances" and abductions
Northern Sri Lanka
Eastern Sri Lanka
Colombo
VI. Fate of the Missing
VII. State Response to the Crisis of
"Disappearances"
Failure to investigate and establish
accountability
Inadequacy of national mechanisms102
Human Rights Commission103
Presidential Commission on Abductions,
Disappearances, and Killings (Tillekeratne Commission)107
Presidential Commission of Inquiry and
International Group of Eminent Persons108
National Police Commission and Special Police
Unit110
Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights113
Monitoring Committee on Abductions and Disappearances114
Official denials116
VIII. Sri Lanka and the International Community119
Position of the international
community119
The government response to the
international criticism.. 125
The need for a UN human rights
monitoring mission128
IX. Recommendations132
To the government of Sri Lanka132
To the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE)134
To donor governments134
Acknowledgements135
Appendix I: "Disappearances" and Abductions
Documented by Human Rights Watch136
Northern Sri Lanka136
Western Sri Lanka170
Eastern Sri Lanka203
Appendix II: Correspondence Between Human Rights
Watch and Sri Lankan Institutions208