Only between 50 - 60 applications have been submitted to receive certificates for the disappeared during the war and postwar periods confirming that they are most likely will not be found sources said.
According to Governor of the Northern Province, Reginald Cooray, this shows that many relations of the disappeared believe they are being held somewhere and will return.
The government had prepared to issue certificates to parents, spouses, children and relations of the disappeared.
However due to receiving only a small number of applications the necessary related work has not been done the governor said. While public living in the North and all districts were able to apply, the President’s commission to look into disappearances led by Supreme Court Judge Maxwell Paranagama was formed during the Rajapaksa regime.
The commission has been active since the appointment of President Maithripala Sirisena and has received over 60 000 complaints up to date.
Source: Resa
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