The Special Presidential Commission on Disappearances reports that some 430 Sri Lankan civilians, mostly minority Tamils, were killed between 14 September 2006 and 25 February 2007.
Timeline of events under "Disappearances" issue
Five senior police officers including a Deputy Inspector General are sent on compulsory leave after the report of a presidential commission established to investigate allegations of torture and extrajudicial executions at a government-run detention center at the Batalanda Housing Estate near Colombo implicated them in the torture and “disappearances” of a large number of youths in the late 1980s.
In protest to the Indian presence, a resurrected JVP orchestrates a second armed uprising.
An armed insurrection breaks out in the south led by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). The government later quells the rebellion with international assistance, killing thousands of insurgents.
