{"id":57794,"date":"2016-08-19T21:51:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T03:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=57794"},"modified":"2016-08-19T06:49:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T13:49:39","slug":"tracing-the-missing-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/08\/19\/tracing-the-missing-persons\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracing the missing persons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">RANJITH SOYSA<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If the news emanating from various sources are to be considered seriously. the tracing of the missing persons will only result in providing half baked answers.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of Tamil people made use of the war situation to seek greener pastures by mainly using illegal methods. They traveled by ships and boats and some who used scheduled airlines threw or destroyed their pass ports at the arrival points in a bid to seek refugee status. Among these were individuals who were involved closely with the LTTE Tamil Tigers war machine.<\/p>\n<p>These individuals are considered &#8216;missing&#8217; in Sri Lanka. When compiling an accurate list of missing people from Sri Lanka the data concerning such persons must be made available to the authority in Sri Lanka. But, we are told that the Western countries in which missing Tamils are living presently have decided not to help the Sri Lankan authority with the required details as a policy.<\/p>\n<p>The Government which has taken many a step in fulfilling the expectations of the West in keeping with the UNHCR resolution should seek the co-operation of the countries such as Canada, Germany, France , Norway, Switzerland and the UK among others to get at a realistic number of missing persons from Sri Lanka, Otherwise, the operation missing persons will fail to achieve its objectives and only be a wasteful exercise to fulfill the narrow political and racist expectations.<\/p>\n<p>RANJITH SOYSA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RANJITH SOYSA If the news emanating from various sources are to be considered seriously. the tracing of the missing persons will only result in providing half baked answers. Tens of thousands of Tamil people made use of the war situation to seek greener pastures by mainly using illegal methods. They traveled by ships and boats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-security","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}