Sri Lanka: "Disappearance"

Sri Lanka: "Disappearance"

Index Number: ASA 37/015/2006
Date Published: 8 June 2006
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, Sri Lanka

Eight Tamil men (Rasanyagampillai Sivananthamoorthy (m), Markandu Pushpakanthan (m), Kandasamy Parimelalakan (m), Vaikundavasan Vikunthakumar (m), Ratnam Thayaruban (m), Ponnambalam Partheepan (m), Selvaratnam Sivanantham (m), Ramachandran Rasakumar (m)) went to a Hindu temple in the north of the country on the evening of 6 May, to decorate it for a religious festival. The following morning they were reported missing and their whereabouts remain unknown. There are grave concerns for their safety.