sri lanka's commissions of inquiry - Law & Society Trust

CONTENTS : Final Report Part I comprised of 5 pages of
findings plus appendices (warrant, newspaper
notices, gist of findings of interim reports,
graphs indicating trends, quantum of
disappearances, etc., places where commission
held sittings, list of abbreviations) and Part II
Annexures of 241 pages (list of complaints
inquired into by this commission, list of
complaints pending inquiry, list of vehicles
involved in removals and/or disappearances,
list of the names of owners of such vehicles
during the relevant time) to be read with 9
Interim Reports of approximately 2.5 pages
each and published as single document.
BRIEF STATEMENT OF FACTS:
The Commission was one of three zonal Commissions appointed in
1994 to inquire into involuntary removals and disappearances since
January 1, 1988.
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS:
Of the fifteen thousand and forty five complaints received, of which
several complaints were received in respect to the same person, six
thousand four hundred and forty three complaints were inquired into
and eight thousand six hundred and two complaints were remaining
at the conclusion of the Commission. Although the information is
disaggregated in terms of the place where the disappearances occurred,
no other disaggregated information (ethnicity, gender, age, occupation,
etc) is provided.
Although the report includes names of some of those the
Commission found to be credibly implicated in involuntary removals/
disappearances, 57 the Commission also sent a confidential list under
separate cover to the President. According to the Commission:
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