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Abductions, disappearances haunt Sri Lankan civil war
Reuters,
March 05.
COLOMBO, March 5 (Reuters) - Like the relatives of hundreds of Sri Lankans who have 'disappeared' or been abducted amid renewed civil war, 27-year-old Dushyanthi Malaravan dreams of the day her missing father will come home.
Professor S. Raveendranath was serving as Vice Chancellor of the island's Eastern University in the restive eastern district of Batticaloa when he disappeared from a science fair in a heavily guarded district of the capital Colombo in mid-December.
"Every day he came home for lunch. That day he didn't arrive. By late afternoon, I knew something had happened because he had been getting threats (demanding he resign)," Malaravan said, her mother weeping beside her.
"We don't want to point at anyone, because we are afraid for his safety as well as for ours," the housewife said in the apartment where her father lived before his disappearance.
Colleagues and rights officials say 56-year-old Raveendranath, a Tamil from the northern Jaffna peninsula, had been receiving threats from a breakaway rebel faction called the Karuna group, which split from the Tigers in 2004.
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