3 Tamil youths from Vavuniyaa reported missing

[TamilNet, Sunday, 12 April 2009, 02:51 GMT]
Three Tamil youths from Vavuniyaa who left to Colombo Thursday morning and interrogated by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers at Oamanthai check post are reported missing with Colombo Human Rights Commission office by the their relatives. The youths had travelled up to Madawaachi SLA check post where they had gone missing, the relatives said in the complaint.

One of the three youths was to go abroad, another an employee in a business establishment in Vavuniyaa and the third, a student.

SLA authorities in Madawaachi when contacted by the relatives said that they had not taken the three youths into custody.