The Office on Missing Persons is a permanent and independent state institution tasked with searching for the truth regarding the fate of the missing and disappeared in Sri Lanka and protecting the rights and interests of the victims and their families.
On 28 February 2018 the OMP was made operational with the appointment of seven commissioners based on the recommendations of the Constitutional Council.
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(a) Search for and trace missing persons and identify appropriate mechanisms for the same and to clarify ...
(b) Make recommendations to the relevant authorities towards addressing the incidence of missing persons
(c) Protect the rights and interests of missing persons and their relatives as provided for in the Act
(d) Identify avenues of redress to which missing persons and relatives of missing persons are entitled an...
(e) Collate data related to missing persons obtained by processes presently being carried out, or which w...
(f) Do all such other necessary things that may become necessary to achieve the objectives under the Act