Vavuniya youth reported missing

[TamilNet, Friday, 10 February 2006, 19:01 GMT]
Sithamparanathan Thamileesan, 24, from Vavuniya, has been reported missing since his departure to Colombo on December 15th, his relatives said in a complaint to the Vavuniya Human Rights Commission (HRC), officials of HRC said.

The youth had contacted home from Colombo on the 18th but since then there had been no news of him, the relatives said.

Relatives added that they have lodged complaints on the disappearance with the International Red Cross (ICRC) and with the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM).

The Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission in Vavuniya had informed the complainants, that the CID and the DIG of the police department in Colombo, on being contacted regarding this case, had said they had not arrested any youth named Thamilseelan.