Political will not demonstrated to implement former reports LLRC report – mixed reaction to contents

Sunday 06 November 2011

By Rathindra Kuruwita 

The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) is to present its final report to the president on November 15. There are also rumours that it will be handed on the 18th – Mahinda Rajapaksa’s birthday. LLRC Chairman C.R. de Silva told LAKBIMAnEWS that the report has already been completed and that they are waiting for the president to notify the commissioners of a date in which he is ready to accept the report.
The LLRC has been greeted with extreme optimism and viewed as a great achievement by the regime’s supporters while international human rights groups including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch dismissed the commission, refusing to even appear before it. 

Choosing a failed model

One of the main criticisms against the LLRC is that the model the government chose, a Commission of Inquiry, has failed consistently in Sri Lanka, starting with the 1977 Sansoni Commission to the 2007’s Udalagama Commission. On many occasions, the commissions failed to produce substantial and unbiased documents and in the few occasions in which they came up with acceptable and fair recommendations, they have not been implemented by the governments that appointed them.    Full Story>>>