Inquiry of missing persons holds sessions in Kattankudy

The Presidential Commission of Inquiry of Missing Persons held its sittings at Kattankudy Divisional Secretariat on Saturday (7).

The first witness among several who came was Abdul Latheef Amjad, whose father Abdul Latheef was abducted and killed said: ‘ My father Abdul Latheef left for Kokkaticholai on May 20, 1985 and never returned home’. He further said that he wants to find the place his father has been buried so that he could give him a proper Islamic burial.

‘My father did not have any problems. He went to Kokkaticholai on a private errand, at a time when we were residing at Manmunai we searched for him, because he had not come home. Later a group had come to his house to tell that he had been killed and to perform his final rites’.

Anjad said, ’Following this, my mother followed the Islamic rites for my father’.

‘There are three children in our family. During the time of my father ’s abduction, my mother was undergoing great hardship in bringing us up. Please find out the place of burial of my father, so that I could bury him according to Islamic rites.’Another witness, M. Saliha Umma said that several persons including her husband were among thirty people who were abducted the same day.

She said: ‘ My husband, Mohammed Thamby Ahmed Lebbe , was abducted on December 30, 1987. He was 59-years-old at that time.’

‘Thirty persons were abducted on the same day. At that time, Kattankudy was under the control of the LTTE. My husband was waiting at Kattankudy Main Street, when he was abducted in a vehicle.’

‘I heard that my husband and 29 others were abducted by the LTTE. Since the day of abduction, he has not returned home.’