The Sri Lankan government declared firearms amnesty to collect weapons that had gone missing after the military had recovered them from the LTTE, has so far retrieved 84 weapons from the South.
Guns were collected from Puttalam, Ratnapura, Kandy, Matara, Galle, Kalutara, Gampaha and Colombo.
None have been reported from the Tamil North-East of the island.
Sri Lanka’s Defence Ministry Secretary Karunasena Hettiarachchi initially said that 900 weapons that had been recovered from the LTTE during the armed conflict had initially gone missing, with approximately 200 such weapons still yet to be located.
See our earlier post: Sri Lankan government willing to pay cash to recover missing firearms (21 Apr 2016)
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