In the hours leading up to Gary's official memorial to it's most famous son, a steady stream of visitors took pictures and left mementos at his childhood home.

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But the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that some relatives have apparently been kept in the dark - one family told a newspaper they only got official information on their son's arrest a long time after he disappeared, and only after they informed the official human rights body.

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But an intelligence official said that the son's name, passport number and possible connection to extremists were indeed disseminated.

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Her name was subsequently added to a terrorism database along with her son's, an intelligence official said last week.

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