Victims sister Monday, 17 October 2022 01:22 PM

Very very sad. This probe will never ever happen. It will be a miracle if it happens. All the looters and the big ones in commanding positions in the higher echelon will be netted and ? life in prison. It’s a challenge to UN. Let’s see whether they will have the guts to have an international probe. SL do not have the experience and courage and intelligence for a laughable “ home grown” solution. The pigs will fly.

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Ram Monday, 17 October 2022 01:40 PM

Good decision to involve international when we cannot sort out things at home due to elected leaders reluctance to investigate.

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Gayantha Hemachandra Monday, 17 October 2022 01:52 PM

They are weeping over their missing loved ones…. They need justice and compassion and they have all the rights to cry out about injustices and atrocities done to their loved ones….

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tilak Monday, 17 October 2022 01:56 PM

Just as we approach international community for financial aid as we are incapable of managing our own finances, this investigation should also be carried out only by International Agency that is capable of doing it. Not Ali Sabry (or Prof.G.L.Peiris's) internal non existing mechanism

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Punchi Monday, 17 October 2022 02:01 PM

We can’t sort out our borrowings we need to external ie Japanese coordination. We cannot sort out our disappearances - we need to escalate it to foreign embassies. We can’t feed our people, we need food aid from overseas. Same with medicines and we are taught the we are the proud products of a 2500 year old superior Buddhist civilisation. Is this fiction created by our mythical mahawansa mindset

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Lumbini Monday, 17 October 2022 02:18 PM

Good luck and all the best! If you keep quiet, nothing will happen.

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Indian Perfidy in UN failure Monday, 17 October 2022 02:55 PM

India's proxy in UN, Vijay Nambiar, the Chef de Cabinet was a key official in shaping UN's SL policy. Nambiar's brother Satish Nambiar Rt Lt General of Indian Army was a defense advisor to SL. Despite a "catastrophic" situation on the ground, "many senior UN staff did not perceive the prevention of killing of civilians as their responsibility". Frances Harrison, author of the book "Still Counting the Dead" on the last months of the war told BBC only way now for Ban Ki-moon to restore the UN's tattered credibility on Sri Lanka is to call an "Independent International Investigation into the slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians in 2009". The UN chose to remain silent about potential war crimes. While nepotism in highlevel appointments to Indian-born ex-Army officer Siddarth Chatterjee who is Ban Ki Moon's son-in-law. Its an unholy mess by this Indian Perfidy in the UN Failure. UN must invesigate Indian Army massacres of Tamils in SL too and punish the mercenary Indian army roots.

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Kumara Monday, 17 October 2022 03:27 PM

For this to happen "Justice" the whole country must unite and demand. Senior politicians won't do it as they protect each other. You can see what is happening to Easter Sunday Church bombing.

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Prabhath Disanayake Monday, 17 October 2022 03:30 PM

This is a bold and brave decision by the poor and the hapless who lost their loved ones in hundreds and thousands due to government's brutality and crimes against humanity. As is it well known, Sri Lankan government has carried out extrajudicial killings, disappearances, crimes and other forms of violence against its own people with impunity which remain unaccountable for decades. It's time that these crimes against humanity should be brought to the notice of international community since that's the only path remain open for these poor mothers and fathers as they weep days and nights in search of their missing sons, daughters and loved ones for decades with no answers end no investigation by those responsible.

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Wijebahu Tuesday, 18 October 2022 02:10 AM

Most Tamil people missing are LTTE cadres died in the war, all they want is money.

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Manage Tuesday, 18 October 2022 05:19 AM

First UN should accept the fact that grave genocide was committed by the the srilankan government against the minority Tamils.Then only UN should take a stern action against the war criminals including mahinda regimen and its war machine.

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Depressed citizen Tuesday, 18 October 2022 07:44 AM

It's so sad that this matter is still unsolved and to be honest, it never will. All the disappearances (white van too!) murders, that took place are hyneous crimes. My heart goes out to these brothers and sisters of mine, most of whom seem to be Tamil, the ladies very decently attired in saree.

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