Lanka sets up office to trace war missing

Sri Lanka yesterday announced it was setting up an office to trace thousands of people still missing seven years after the end of its ethnic war, to try to bring closure for families. The Office of Missing Persons (OMP) is given with wide powers to investigate the disappearance of more than 20,000 people. The Tamil separatist war between 1972 and 2009 claimed the lives of at least 100,000 people.