Mannar youth missing

[TamilNet, Monday, 02 January 2006, 11:35 GMT]
Mr.Navaratnam Thiyogu Vasanthakumar, 25, who was taken away by three masked men on the 26 December night has not returned home yet, his wife, Ms Siromi, 23, mother of four year old girl Monday lodged a complaint with the Mannar Citizen Committee, Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) and the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission (SLHRC), civil society sources said.

Mr.Vasanthakumar is a native of Silavathurai in Mannar district but later he shifted his residence to Talaimannar Pier area, sources said.

According to Ms Siromi, three masked men had entered her house that night and asked her husband about the house of one Mr Bosco. Thereafter the masked men had asked her husband to accompany them.

The Mannar Police and the Sri Lanka Navy have denied any involvement with the arrest and disappearance of Mr.Vasanthakumar when the complainant approached them, sources said