Aug 30, 2021
“Families of the disappeared are back to the beginning of their struggle…the pain of not knowing the truth is a wound that keeps bleeding.” Sandya Ekneligoda, 2021 Can you imagine losing a loved one but not having a body to mourn? Over the decades thousands of...
Aug 10, 2021
In June the Australian High Commissioner met Army Commander Shavendra Silva to hand over PPE supplies and accept a gift in return, posing for photos shared by the Sri Lankan Army. UN reports link Silva to mass atrocity crimes, including extrajudicial killings and...
Apr 13, 2021
Next week, more than 200 Sri Lankan troops will be deployed to a UN peacekeeping mission in Mali. We want to stop that from happening, and ask for your help to ensure that it doesn’t. Why? Because in 2019, the UN itself announced it was suspending deployment of Sri...
Jan 24, 2019
On this day nine years ago, a political cartoonist went to work in Colombo. He never came home. Prageeth Eknaligoda was an outspoken critic of the government of Sri Lanka. He worked tirelessly to expose the gross human rights violations committed against Tamil...
Aug 30, 2018
The below is a joint statement by the Sri Lanka Campaign, the National Network of the Families of the Disappeared and Missing Nepal (NEFAD), and People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL), marking the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. A...
