Over 500 pleas to find loved ones

BBC Sinhala
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Relatives of displaced people who gathered at the police mobile relief service centre set up at Vauniya urged the police to provide them with information of their loved once.

Mothers complained that living with out knowing what happened to their children is something difficult to bare up.

A mother in tears told reporter Dinasena rathugamage that her son was arrested by the army when he crossed over from the then LTTE controlled area and that he is now held in the Army Camp at Welikanda.

Another mother said that finding her lost son has become a very expensive affair and she has had to spend the little money earned by selling rice to search her son.

“Please tell us if he is living or not and if he is not living we will make up are minds” said this mother.

Most of the relatives who had come to lodge complaints had come from the Manik Farm refugee camp.

They complained that it was difficult from them to travel to the Vauniya town where the police relief centre was conducted and urged the police to have the relief service at the Manik Farm camp for war refugees.

Parents also complained to the police saying that have been denied access to their children who have been detained by the army.

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