Sri Lanka: Disappearances and the Collapse of the Police System VIEW ALL BOOKS Purchase this Publication Book Price: (include standard airmail service) Hong Kong : HK$ 60.00 Outside Hong Kong : US$ 25.00 Cheque payment: US$ 32.00 Three commissions which investigated the involuntary removals or disappearance of persons have submitted their reports. They looked into more than 16,800 cases. A fourth commission is now investigating into over 10,000 cases. The only actions that have come as a result so far are the issue of death certificates for over 18,000 persons, granting of the very limited compensation to some affected families and beginning of prosecution of less than 200 cases. Considerable cynicism has spread throughout the country not only about the outcome of these investigations but about the processes and the institutions that are expected to maintain law and order. A widespread belief is that the State is not considering any serious action, as the political establishment does not have the capacity to scrutinise the police system. On the other hand, quite paradoxically, there is also a belief that the police establishment cannot undertake any internal action against individuals or reform of the system due to political interference…. Table of Contents 55th Session on U.N. Commission on Human Rights: What Difference Could it Make on DIsappearances Issue? A Draft: A Resolution Relating to Disappearances in Sri Lanka A Memoradum to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances from Asian Legal Resource Centre, Hong Kong A Submission to the Commission of Inquiry into Involuntary Removal or Disappearance of Persons in Sri Lanka Book Info Causing Disappearances: A Crime Against Humanity Disappearances of Persons and the Disappearance of a System Foreword Laws that Made Large-Scale Murder Legal Lists Given by Politicians, Killing of Political enemies, Abduction with the View to Kill and Other Matters Statement on Embilipitiya Case Brave Judgement in One Case of Children Disappearances, Thousands Still Not Investigated or Prosecuted Click here to download this publication in PDF format.
