Families of the disappeared marked 800 days of protest in Vavuniya on Monday with prayers at the town’s Church of St Anthony.
The families, who have been demanding answers and international justice for their forcibly disappeared relatives for over 2 years, also paid tribute to the victims of the Easter Sunday terror attacks in Batticaloa and Colombo.
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