The Commissioners of LLRC
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27 Trinco DS http://www.llrc.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26&Itemid=56<br />
28 http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2011/04/15/more-than-20-people-last-seen-in-army-custody-remain-missing/<br />
29 http://www.lakbimanews.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2278%3Adisarming-easternparmilitariesbecomes-a-joke-army-sources&Itemid=56<br />
30 http://groundviews.org/2011/08/19/“i-want-to-continue-to-highlight-the-activities-against-the-humanity”-gnanasundaramku<br />
ganathan/<br />
31 http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=28405<br />
32 http://chrsrilanka.com/<strong>LLRC</strong>_session_in_Kuchchaweli__146_Complaints__Land_ownership_issue__Critical__-5-37.html)<br />
33 http://chrsrilanka.com/<strong>LLRC</strong>_session_in_Kuchchaweli__146_Complaints__Land_ownership_issue__Critical__-5-37.html<br />
34 http://www.parliament.lk/news/ViewPublication.do?published=Y&documentID=PUB3509<br />
35 http://lakbimanews.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2956%3Ahomeland-act-to-replace-pta&Itemid=56<br />
36 Representation by witness number 15 <strong>of</strong> Mutur DS, <strong>LLRC</strong> outstation sessions<br />
37 IAAC Report<br />
38 http://www.lankapuvath.lk/index.php/latest-news/general/12717-lands-in-the-hsz-soon-to-civilians<br />
39 When will they get justice? Failures <strong>of</strong> Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission. http://www.amnesty.<br />
org/en/library/asset/ASA37/008/2011/en/76ea6500-a9f5-4946-bf2b-7fc08bc5e37a/asa370082011en.pdf<br />
40 Updated Set <strong>of</strong> principles for the protection and promotion <strong>of</strong> human rights through action to combat impunity, United<br />
Nations, E/CN.4/2005/102/Add.1, 8 February 2005, http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G05/109/00/PDF/<br />
G0510900. pdf?OpenElement<br />
41 See for example (and below), the Commission’s handling <strong>of</strong> testimony by Dr. Varatharajah, http://www.llrc.lk/images/sto<br />
ries/<strong>LLRC</strong>_30.11_-_Dr._T.Vartharajah.pdf<br />
42 “See, for example, the Pr<strong>of</strong> J E Jayasuriya Memorial Lecture ‘Post-Conflict Foreign Policy Challenges<br />
for Sri Lanka’. Speaking as a ‘practitioner’, <strong>LLRC</strong> commissioner Mr Palihakkara asserted that<br />
‘precautionary humanitarian measures [were] taken by the security forces and [there was] exercise <strong>of</strong><br />
maximum restraint to minimize civilian casualties and other collateral damage.’ Noting that ‘our soldiers<br />
and the political leadership provided by our President enabled the country to free itself from the manifest<br />
threat to its sovereignty and integrity.’ He referred to sovereignty ‘rescued by our soldiers’ and ‘so<br />
valiantly re-established by our soldiers.’ He further hailed ‘successful preventive diplomacy at the United<br />
Nations Security Council without alienating any country to deter intervention in Sri Lanka during the antiLTTE operation in<br />
2009.’” Report <strong>of</strong> the Secretary General’s Panel <strong>of</strong> Experts on Accountability in Sri<br />
Lanka, Page 85<br />
43 Report <strong>of</strong> the Secretary-General’s Panel <strong>of</strong> Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka, Paras 279–80, Page 78<br />
44 Testimony <strong>of</strong> Witness 6, proceedings <strong>of</strong> public sittings <strong>of</strong> the Commission <strong>of</strong> Inquiry on Lessons Learnt<br />
and Reconciliation appointed by His Excellency the President in terms <strong>of</strong> Section 2 <strong>of</strong> the Commissions<br />
<strong>of</strong> Inquiry Act, Divisional Secretariat, Eravur Pattu, Chenkalady, 10 October, 2010<br />
45 Testimony <strong>of</strong> Witness 8, proceedings <strong>of</strong> public sittings <strong>of</strong> the Commission <strong>of</strong> Inquiry on Lessons Learnt<br />
and Reconciliation appointed by His Excellency the President in terms <strong>of</strong> Section 2 <strong>of</strong> the Commissions<br />
<strong>of</strong> Inquiry Act, Batticaloa District Secretariat, 9 October 2010<br />
46 When will they get Justice? Failures <strong>of</strong> Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission. http://www.amnesty.<br />
org/en/library/asset/ASA37/008/2011/en/76ea6500-a9f5-4946-bf2b-7fc08bc5e37a/asa370082011en.pdf 7<br />
47 Field visits were conducted from 14 August 2010 – 19 February 2011: Vavuniya: 14 August 2010<br />
Public Sittings – DS Vavuniya , DS Cheddikulam , IDPP Centre, Manik Farm; 15 August 2010 Public<br />
Sittings - DS Nedunkerni. Kilinochchi & Mullaitivu: 18 September 2010 Public Sittings – DS<br />
Kilinochchi and DS Pachchillaipillai; 19 September 2010 Public Sittings – DS Poonagary; 20<br />
September 2010 Public Sittings – DS Mullaitivu; 20 September 2010 Mullaitivu Security Forces<br />
Headquarters. Batticaloa: 09 October 2010 Public Sittings – DS Batticaloa; 09 October 2010 Public<br />
Sittings – DS Oddamavaddy; 11 October 2010 Public Sittings – DS Eravurpattu. Jaffna: 11 November<br />
2010 Public Sittings – Ariyalai; 12 November 2010 Public Sittings – Gurunagar Cultural Hall; 12<br />
November 2010 Public Sittings – Vadukkodai East, Sittankerney; 12 November 2010 Public Sittings –<br />
District Secretariat, Jaffna; 14 November 2010 Public Sittings - St. Anthony’s Church, Kayts.<br />
Trincomalee: 03 December 2010 - District Secretariat, Trincomalee; 04 December 2010 - District<br />
Secretariat, Mutur. Puttalam & Mannar: 07.01.2011 - District Secretariat, Puttalam; 08.01.2011 -<br />
District Secretariat, Mannar; 09 January 2011 - District Secretariat, Madhu. Galle & Matara: 18<br />
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