The two activists 29-year-old Lalith Kumar Weeraraju and 34-year-old Kugan Muruganandan went missing on Dec. 9, 2011, while organizing a news conference to mark Human Rights Day for their organization, Movement for People's Struggle, in Sri Lanka's former northern civil war zone.
Their colleagues accuse the military of abducting them, but the military denies the allegation. Hundreds of activists demonstrated today in front of Colombo's main railroad station.
Sri Lanka's government is facing international criticism for failing to properly probe alleged abductions, attacks and killings of political opponents, activists and journalists during and after the war, which ended in 2009.