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Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission:
CID to probe missing persons
Chaminda Perera in Karachi
Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission Chairman C. R. de Silva
PC Saturday said Criminal Investigations Department officials will be
brought before the Commission to inquire into the missing persons and
those in detention camps.
The Chairman made this announcement when a number of families in the
Karachi Divisional Secretariat complained about being missing family
members while were fleeing Government controlled areas. Silva informed
the people whose family members were reported either missing or are in
detention camps to provide details to the Commission.
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Recommendation to President
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Lessons
Learnt and reconciliation Commission Chairman C R de Silva PC
yesterday said the commission made a number of recommendations
to the President for the release of people detained by the
forces when the commission met him four days ago.
Former LTTE combatants and members are among the detainees. He
said the President agreed to evolve a viable mechanism that can
ensure their release and integrate them to the society. The
commission chairman made this announcement when the sitting
resumed at the Pachchilaipallai DS division in the Kilinochchi
district. |
A number of persons who were present at the divisional secretariat
office forwarded details of the missing persons and those detained by
the security forces to the Commission.
Most people had been reported missing while fleeing LTTE held areas.
They broke down in tears when they recollected how they were harassed
by the LTTE. They cried when they described how their children in
schools were abducted by the LTTE.
The Mahaweer families making representations before the Commission
said that they wanted lands given by the LTTE.
They said they developed those lands well.
The Commission Chairman said the LTTEs had no legal right to provide
land to the people.
Kilinochchi Government Agent Rupawathi Kethiswaran said the Mahaweer
families had been provided alternative lands.
The Commission made a public announcement that all details regarding
missing and detained persons can be informed to the Commission by post.
Silva said the family members who could not provide details of
missing and detained persons can write to the Commission in Colombo.
The people who were living in the area when the fighting was raging
said that the security forces helped them a lot. |
