Deliberate Denial of Justice for Sri Lanka’s Tamil Victims of Enforced Disappearances Sri Lanka’s Tamil Disappearances and the State’s Deliberate Obstruction of Truth Introduction The issue of enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka, particularly those affecting Tamil communities during and after the country’s protracted armed conflict, persists as one of the most egregious and unresolved human rights crises in South and Southeast Asia. Despite international scrutiny, legislative reforms, and the establishment of multiple domestic mechanisms, justice and truth for the families of tens of thousands of disappeared remain consistently and deliberately denied by the Sri Lankan state. This dossier critically examines how successive governments have manipulated legal, political, and institutional frameworks to avoid accountability, with a special focus on the state’s use of reclassifying wartime disappearances as “missing persons”-an act which serves to obscure crimes of enforced disappear...