The only development that I have seen is the notion of having a “census of the dead”. The hope is that there would be some record that might begin to put into hard data who disappeared and when they disappeared. There are many families who have no idea where their civilian family members are as a result of the war that ended in 2009. All they can find out is that someone they knew was missing for four or five years and may have died in a particular prison.
We have a huge problem. For many Sri Lankans, particularly from the Tamil community, there are huge gaps in their family and community—children who are missing, sons and aunts and brothers and fathers. There really has been no substantive effort to address that question that I could see or find. Let's hope that the census of the dead will be a beginning. But it will be a very long time before it gets to any of the names that are most pressing for the families who are so concerned.