For You, The Disappeared

Sri Lanka is a country that has lost hundred thousandsof lives due to enforced disappearances and is stillgrieving. Both state and anti-government rebel groupsare responsible for the disappearances in the northand south of the country. Sinhala, Tamil and Muslimcommunity members were among them. It is a shamethat the state still fails to find the missing persons orcompensate for those disappearances. For more than30 years, The Families of the Disappeared organisationhas been waging a never-ending struggle to solve thisunresolved issue. It’s a struggle to keep pushing foraccountability in Sri Lanka given what they see asofficial indifference or outright obstruction. SeveralCommissions of Inquiry have been appointed bysuccessive governments since 1990. Altogether theyreceived approx. 80,000 complaints. More than halfwere considered strong enough for further investigation.But the Sri Lankan authorities have failed to stop actsof enforced disappearance, failed to undertake criminalinvestigations into complaints, and failed to prosecutethose responsible. This documentary is a review of theorganisation’s role in finding a solution to the problem ofmissing persons while retaining that historic role.