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Sri Lanka: Human Rights

Volume 459: debated on Tuesday 17 April 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps the Government are taking to raise with the Government of Sri Lanka the disappearance of Pastor Victor Yogarajan and three others in Negombo on 2 March. (131141)

We have made no specific representations to the Sri Lankan Government about the case of the disappearance of Pastor Victor Yogarajan and others in Negombo on 2 March. My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary spoke with her counterpart the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister in March about the situation faced by the civilian population as a result of the escalated conflict and raised our concerns about human rights.