OMP to meet families in Colombo this month

07 Oct, 2018

The Office on Missing Persons (OMP) is to meet families from the Western Province in Colombo this month.

OMP member and acting chairman Mirak Raheem told The Sunday Morning that the OMP will meet families of the disappeared at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute on October 16th.

?We will meet families from the three districts in the Western Province,? he said.

He said the OMP will hear from the families of the missing and take their suggestions.

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