COLOMBO, Oct 8: A United Nations panel has expressed serious concern over Sri Lanka’s lack of progress in addressing cases of enforced disappearances, including the performance of the Office on Missing Persons (OMP), which has traced only a fraction of the nearly 17,000 cases it has received. In a report issued on Tuesday, the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (UNCED) noted the “high level of impunity reflected in the lack of progress in the investigation and prosecution of alleged enforced disappearances”. The UNCED report comes a day after the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Monday adopted a resolution extending the mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Sri Lanka for two more years. The report also pointed out that of the

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