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13,000 People missing !!

by senthil5000 | June 2, 2009 at 09:54 pm

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Around 13,000 tamils detained in the IDP camps at sri lanka are missing.
Already many medias like Channel 4 and Sky News reported on the sexual abuses, kidnapping etc happening inside the detention camps.

United Nations has not yet commented on this. United Nations being shy about its incompetent role in Sri Lanka's war, already found withholding the civilian casualties to save Sri Lanka. Technically united nations has not officially announced any casualtiy figures. The 'United Nations leaked document' is so far considered as a base casualty number until the popular 'The Times' news and a French news media reported a total of 20,000. Throughout the past UN maintained diplomatic answers to the questions on civilian casualties like "Unacceptably high number", "20,000 is not a UN number" etc. Even after the medias started reporting on the possiblities of casualties as high as 20,000, UN seems not showing interest in finding the truth behind and instead trying to object those reported numbers.

UNITED NATIONS, June 2 -- With the UN already under fire for withholding and downplaying the number of civilian casualties in Sri Lanka, another ongoing controversy has opened up concerning the number of internally displaced persons detained in the IDP camps in northern Sri Lanka. Between the May 27 and May 30 reports of the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, over 13,000 IDPs simply disappeared from the camps.

   OCHA's May 30 report states that "276,785 persons crossed to the Government controlled areas from the conflict zone. This represents a decrease of 13,130 IDPs since the last report (Sitrep No.18) on 27 May 2009. The decrease is associated with double counting. Additional verification is required."

   But earlier, OCHA had praised the "improved, systematic registration being undertaken in the camps."

    UN sources in Colombo tell Inner City Press that senior UN officials above them, Sri Lankan nationals who are Sinhalese, are downplaying the 13,000 "missing" IDPs, which would otherwise be of much concern given the reports of disappearances from the camps, the seizing of teenage males for detention and females for other purposes, UK Channel 4 asserted with on camera interviews.