what i want to approach former president mahinda rajapaksa who declined to comment in a statement former defense secretary go to buy a rajapaksa described from psych as claims as baseless allegations he denies the security forces or government in power at the time carried out in force disappearances it's. a. human rights activist ricky fernando says the try to ignore this issue for decades. has the second largest number of disappearances report that you went off to iraq. today ricky is going to document some cases in t.v. on the northern tip of sri lanka. in two thousand and nine this district was the front line in the final battles between the separatists tamil targets and the government forces. it was then that some of the country's most notorious disappearances happened at neverland and that that was in the end as i never in the end of my letter and now and every day for the past year ten families in towns across the region have been holding vigils they say many of their relatives were taken by the military and have never been seen again i think the pain and the grief and the tears ar