{"id":7895,"date":"2020-01-07T00:18:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T00:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7895"},"modified":"2020-01-07T00:18:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T00:18:38","slug":"omp-act-to-be-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/omp-act-to-be-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"OMP Act to be reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The government has decided to review the Office of Missing Persons (OMP) Act enacted by Parliament during the former regime, an official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Act was brought in as part of the previous government\u2019s commitment to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in terms of resolution 30\/1. It provided for the establishment of the Office of Missing Persons as part of that government\u2019s reconciliation process. Resolution 30\/1 envisaged the setting up of such a mechanism to trace the fate of persons who went missing, particularly during war time, to maintain a database of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The rulers of the incumbent government &#8212; who were in the opposition at that time &#8212; were then opposed to the Act saying it would be a step in the direction of pressing war crime charges against the military.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">An official attached to the Justice Ministry said a preliminary discussion was held on the Act and that the government would review it and decide what needed to be done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cIt is too early to say whether it would be repealed or not. We have to review it properly and then decide,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has decided to review the Office of Missing Persons (OMP) Act enacted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}