Yasmin Sooka

Yasmin Sooka is a South African transitional justice lawyer who was one of three experts appointed by the UN Secretary General to investigate the Sri Lankan civil war.

How the Office on Missing Persons is failing Sri Lanka’s disappeared

An examination of the OMP’s records reveals thousands of missing names and unexplained discrepancies in official tallies of Sri Lanka’s disappeared, raising questions of whether this truth-seeking mechanism has become another instrument of impunity

By Yasmin Sooka and Frances Harrison

/ 27 Oct 2026

How the Office on Missing Persons is failing Sri Lanka’s disappeared