This is President Rajapaksa’s first outreach yet to the families of the missingSri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will soon meet families of missing persons who have been protesting to find their relatives’ whereabouts, according to a top official. “The President is really determined to bring closure to this issue and give the families a solution,” Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Retd.) This is President Rajapaksa’s first outreach yet to the families of the missing, with a promise of closure. But families, who have testified before different governmental commissions and the Office on Missing Persons, maintain that their relatives are not among those released. A month into office, President Rajapaksa told the UN Resident Coordinator that thousands who were reported missing were “actually dead”, heightening their families’ worst fears.

Source: The Hindu February 25, 2021 15:56 UTC