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Organisation

Office on Missing Persons

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Also known as

OMP

Type

Independent body set up by the government in 2018, according to the BBC report carried by Daily FT

Estimate

Its chairman, Saliya Pieris PC, said in August 2018 that the number missing during the war since 1983 could be about 20,000, and that earlier figures may overlap

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Disappearances and wartime killings

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• Office on Missing Persons / Partly funds the excavation of / Mannar mass grave, found 2018
  • The BBC report says the Office on Missing Persons partly funds the excavation, and that the Mannar court will decide next steps once it ends.23 Nov 2018 · BBC (via Daily FT) · Sri Lanka mass graves: 230 skeletons found at country's largest site
  • Daily Mirror reports that its chairman said the office had intervened at the site and that excavation had been delayed by a lack of funds.24 Aug 2018 · Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) · Some 20,000 could be missing due to war since 83: OMP