Report of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
(Sri Lanka is ranked 3rd highest in the number of disappearances in the world)

Highest (former) Yugoslavia and Iraq
Next - Sri Lanka - 11,513 disappeared
Next - Guatemala - 3,151 disappeared

STATISTICAL SUMMARY

CASES OF INVOLUNTARY DISAPPEARANCE REPORTED TO THE WORKING GROUP BETWEEN
1980 AND 1996

Country

 Cases transmitted to the Government Clarifications by: Status of person at date of clarification

Total

Outstanding

Government

Non governmental sources

At
liberty

In
detention

Dead

No. of cases

Female

No. of cases

Female

Afghanistan

 2 - 2 - - - - - -

Algeria

 107 2 100 - 6 1 2 - 5

Angola

 7 1 4 - 3 - - - 3

Argentina

 3 461 - 3 384 - 43 34 49 - 28

Bahrain

 1 - - - - 1 - 1 -

Bangladesh

 1 1 1 1 - - - - -

Bolivia

 48 7 28 - 19 1 19 - 1

Brazil

 56 4 8 - 47 1 1 2 45

Bulgaria

 3 - - - 3 - - - 3

BurkinaFaso

 3 - 3 - - - - - -

Burundi

 47 - 47 - - - - - -

Cameroon

 6 - 6 - - - - - -

Chad

 12 - 11 - 1 - - - -

Chile

 912 67 848 - 41 23 2 - 62

China

 73 5 28 - 39 6 35 9 1

Colombia

 970 84 756 - 162 52 129 19 66

Dominican Republic

 4 - 2 - 2 - 2 - -

Ecuador

 20 2 5 - 11 4 6 4 5

Egypt

 17 - 15 - 2 - - 2 -

El Salvador

 2661 332 2270 267 318 73 196 175 20

Equatorial Guinea

 3 - 3 - - - - - -

Ethiopia

 102 2 100 - 1 1 1 1 -

Gambia

 1 - 1 - - - - -
Greece 3 - 3 - - - - - -
Guatemala 3151 381 3007 - 65 79 87 6 51
Guinea 28 - 21 - - 7 - - 6
Haiti 48 1 38 - 9 1 5 4 1
Honduras 197 34 129 - 30 38 53 8 7
India 255 10 218 - 28 9 13 6 19
Indonesia 428 33 378 1 38 12 40 8 2
Iran 509 99 496 - 11 2 3 1 9
Iraq 16329 2295 16199 - 107 23 103 6 21
Israel 3 - 2 - - 1 - - 1
Kazakstan 2 - - - - 2 - 2 -
Kuwait 1 - 1 - - - - - -
Lao People's Democratic Republic 1 - 1 - - - - - -
Lebanon 286 15 281 13 - 5 5 - -
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 1 - 1 - - - - - -
Mauritania 1 - 1 - - - - - -
Mexico 319 24 237 - 72 10 33 7 42
Morocco 232 27 142 - 64 26 75 1 14
Mozambique 2 - 2 - - - - - -
Myanmar 2 1 - - 2 - 1 1 -
Nepal 6 - 5 - - 1 1 - -
Nicaragua 234 4 103 - 112 19 45 11 75
Nigeria 5 1 - - 5 - 5 - -
Pakistan 60 2 56 - 1 3 4 - -
Paraguay 23 1 3 - 20 - 19 - 1
Peru 3001 311 2371 116 249 381 443 85 102
Philippines 649 80 496 - 122 31 106 17 30
Romania 1 - - - 1 - 1 - -
Russian Federation 160 11 160 - - - - - -

Rwanda

 11 1 10 - - 1 1 - -
Saudia Arabia 1 - 1 - - - - - -
Seychelles 3 - 3 - - - - - -
South Africa 11 1 7 - 2 2 1 1 2
Sri Lanka 11,513 127 11,449 - 30 34 31 17 16
Sudan 261 33 257 - 1 3 4 - -
Syrian Arab Republic 35 3 11 - 11 13 15 5 4
Tajikistan 6 - 5 - - 1 - - 1
Togo 11 2 10 - - 1 1 - -
Tunisia 1 - - - 1 - - 1 -
Turkey 145 10 78 - 29 38 45 11 11
Turkmenistan 2 - - - 2 - - 2 -
Uganda 20 4 13 - 2 5 2 5 -
Uruguay 36 - 28 - 7 1 4 4 -
Uzbekistan 3 - 3 - - - - - -
Venezuela 10 2 6 - 4 - 1 - 3
Yemen 98 - 97 - - 1 1 - -
Zaire 27 1 21 - 6 - 6 - -
Zimbabwe 1 - - - 1 - - - 1

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