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Reconciliation A WALL OF RECONCILIATION be constructed with the names of
the disappeared persons as a monument to the Disappeared. 189 V.4
The recommendations be acted upon as part of a reparation
package to those affected families to help in the process of
national healing and reconciliation. V.18
Compensation Expeditious payment of fair & adequate compensation to
dependents of disappeared persons within a time frame in all the
districts. Such payment should cover dependents of employees of
the public sector, corporations and other state-owned institutions.
The idea of introducing a new tax similar to the Defence Levy may
be considered in order to generate funds for this purpose. 190 I.1(i)
All Island,
Final (86)
All Island,
Final (87)
Southern, Final
(169)
2001
2001
1997
189.
A Monument for the Disappeared-Against Every Single Disappearance was created by Chandragupta Thenuwara under the guidance of
Kalape Api and the Asian Human Rights Commission in Raddolowa, Seeduwa, at the site where Ranjith Herath and his friend M.Lionel were
killed and burnt on October 27th 1989. The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared have held a commemorative service at the monument
on October 27th annually since the year 2000. The monument was officially unveiled on 04 February 2000. Over 1000 missing persons are
registered with Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared. See SRI LANKA: Commemorating Day of the Disappeared in Sri Lanka, By
Dushiyanthini Kanagasabapathipillai, Asian Human Rights Commission, 31 October 2006, available at http://www.ahrchk.net/ahrc-in-news/
mainfile.php/2006ahrcinnews/923/. A state sponsored monument for the disappeared children of Embilipitiya was unveiled in December
1999, and was called the “Shrine of the Innocents”. Dr. Sasanka Perera asserts that the project cost over six million Sri Lankan Rupees
and was sponsored by the State and co-ordinated by an organization called the Sudu Nelum Movement. It is located within a kilometre of
Parliament, on the Cololmbo-Parliament main road. Perera, Sasanka, Public Space and Monuments: Politics of Sanctioned and Contested
Memory, South Asia Journal of Culture, Vol. 1, 2007, available at http://colomboinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/sasanka-pereraessay-sajc-vol-1-2007.pdf.
Its present state of maintenance leaves much to be desired.
190.
Rehabilitation of Persons, Properties and Industries Authority [hereinafter referred to as REPPIA] operates a scheme whereby, once the
families of victims are able to obtain a death certificate under the terms of the Registration of Deaths (Temporary Provisions) Acts, these
families will be compensated under the Most Affected Persons (MAP) scheme. The MAP’s scheme provides for compensation for death
and injuries in the case of terrorist activity and communal disturbance, natural disasters etc with missing persons being subsumed under the
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