; Whereas under the International Convention on Disappearances, every victim has the right to know the truth regarding the circumstances of the enforced disappearance, the progress and results of the investigation, and the fate of the disappeared person; Whereas relatives of victims of enforced disappearances and members of civil society often face reprisals for seeking information and justice, and such reprisals are often carried out under the pretext of security and counterterrorism measures; Whereas the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination was alarmed by the numerous reports about arbitrary detention of possibly a million Uyghurs and Muslim minorities; Whereas most Uyghur detainees are held without or on unknown charges in several facilities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and the whereabouts and physical condition of many remain unknown; Whereas with the passage into law of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 ( Public Law 116–145 ), it is the policy of the United States to condemn the mass arbitrary detention of Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang and sanction those responsible for causing the disappearances of persons and the prolonged detention of those persons without charges and trial; Whereas according to Amnesty International, Sri Lanka is home to one of the world’s highest number of enforced disappearances, with somewhere between 60,000 to 100,000 people allegedly disappeared since the late 1980s; Whereas, during the 26-year civil war ending in 2009 between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, tens of thousands of Tamils were forcibly disappeared by the police, military, and paramilitary operatives