We are prepared to work with the Govt to launch a website so that the IC & millions of Tamils living here & abroad know the fate of their relatives!!

Give details of IDPs: Mano Ganesan

The Civil Monitoring Commission (CMC) yesterday urged the government to publish the names, addresses, NIC numbers and other personal details of the 150,000 internally displaced people it claims to have registered and the details of the 110,000 others to whom it had issued identity cards.
CMC convener Mano Ganesan who heads a group of parliamentarians for Human Rights made this urgent request from the government and said the opposition was prepared to work with the government in setting up a website to carry IDP details.

He said Ravinatha Ariyasinha -- Sri Lanka’s EU Ambassador at Brussels during a hearing on Sri Lanka told European Parliament’s Human Rights Committee Chairman Heidi Hautala that details of the IDPs would be published soon.

Mr. Ariyasinha had also said that 54 international agencies, INGOs and NGOs were engaged in humanitarian work at the IDP camps.

Mr. Ganesan expressed his satisfaction on the completion of registrations and issuance of IDs to large segments of the internally displaced people as told to the international community.

However he said it was surprising to find that our parliamentarians have not been given this information.

“We are also surprised that while 54 NGOs are permitted to assist the IDPs the elected representatives who are office bearers of the Parliamentarians for Human Rights are not permitted to be at the service of our own people,” Mr. Ganesan said.

He said thousands of IDP family members living here and abroad contacted the monitoring commission.

“We are prepared work with the government in launching a website so that not only the international community but most importantly millions of Sri Lankan Tamils living here and abroad will know the fate of their near and dear ones” Mr. Ganesan said.

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