The Presidential Commission inquiring into Missing Persons is now meeting in Batticaloa in the Eastern Province to inquire into complaints on disappeared persons. Many complaints lodged by the people were taken up for hearing at the Kattankudi Divisional Secretariat. The Commission is probing complaints made on persons who had gone missing after 1990.
Since the Establishment of the Commission on 15th August 2013, the Commssion up to date has received in excess of 18,590 complaints inclusive of approximately 5000 complaints from relatives of missing security forces personnel.
The Commission has since then held Public Sittings during the months of January, February and March in Killinochchi, Jaffna and Batticaloa. During these sittings, the Commission has heard oral evidence of 462 complainants. The recorded evidences of these complainants are being analysed for further investigations through an independent Investigative Team.
The Commission has held regular meetings with the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and have obtained their views and experiences gained in other parts of the world particularly on matters relating to missing persons at the end of a conflict.
The Presidential Commission hearings in Batticaloa will continue until Monday. Thereafter the Commission will move on to Mullaitivu.(kh/dn)
Source:www.news.lk
