Bearing Witness in Seeduwa

Photo courtesy Yolanda Foster I have just returned from Sri Lanka where conversations with disappearance activists left me deeply unsettled. Barely a month after Sri Lanka presented its report before the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) in Geneva, families once again gathered in Seeduwa to show that international pledges have meant little without political will at home. Despite recent government assurances to strengthen domestic accountability mechanisms and provide reparations, those working closest to the issue told a different story. More than four decades since the first mass disappearances, families are still waiting for truth, for recognition and for justice.…

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