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Balendran Jeyakumari
HRD
Balendran Jeyakumari has led a campaign calling for the whereabouts of missing persons in Sri Lanka to be made known. She became involved in the campaign following the enforced disappearance of her son after he surrendered to the Sri Lankan army in 2009. Balendran Jeyakumari and her daughter have featured in various video documentaries on the disappeared. She has mobilised families in Killinochchi to attend hearings, protests and meetings on the issue of disappearances.