Sandaya Eknaligoda, whose journalist husband is widely suspected to have been abducted by security forces in 2010, said she welcomed the UN call for those who are guilty to be punished.
He and Mrs. Del Ponte refused to discuss the types of crimes being investigated, but there are widely known cases of Serbian civilians abducted by members of the K.L.A.
The articles were drawn from interviews with veteran Seiji Yoshida who claimed he had seen women from the South Korean island of Jeju being abducted to work as sex slaves, now widely discredited.
It is widely believed that Soviet jailers killed Mr. Wallenberg after he was abducted off the street near Budapest, but his fate has remained a lingering mystery.
On 6 May 1947, Alexander Rubowitz, a teenage member of Lehi - "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel", more widely and more accurately known as the Stern Gang - was abducted in Jerusalem by a "special squad" of the Palestine police, led by Major Roy Farran, who took him to a wood, interrogated him and murdered him.
The Arab Revolutionary Cells also claimed to have abducted U.S. hostage Joseph J. Cicippio in 1986, but he is widely thought to be held by the Revolutionary Justice Organization.
The recent protests were sparked last week when investigators found charred remains in Mexico's southwest, widely believed to belong to at least some of the students who were abducted in the town of Iguala on September 26.
Mr. Dodge was the university's acting president when he was abducted by armed men outside his campus office on July 19 , 1982 his abductors were widely described as Shiite militia members with ties to Iran.
The storylines were widely affected by the pregnancy of actress Gillian Anderson; it was decided that Scully would be kidnapped and abducted by aliens, explaining her absence and allowing her to appear comatose two episodes later, which ultimately added more intricacies to the mythology.
