ETHICSTRUTH AND POST-CONFLICT ACCOUNTABILITY
You Hold the File on a Disappearance. What Do You Tell the Widow and What Do You Keep Back?
The Hindu carried a report on 2 November 2026 on the 1,604th consecutive day of the Batticaloa march for the missing. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, elected in 2024, had promised to probe disappearances and open an independent prosecutor's office. Human Rights Watch's report of 1 September found some progress in previously derailed investigations, but not the urgency needed to end impunity.
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