Is there a merit for the victims from the disappeared commissions?

- Mar 01, 2016

A spokesperson of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) Thyagi Ruwanpathirana said not only the Paranagama commission but none of the other commissions formed to investigate the people disappeared has enforced justice for the victims.

Although there are 24000 complaints of the disappeared people has been submitted to the Maxwell Paranagama commission only 4247 complaints has been inquired said Thyagi Ruwanpathirana replying to a questions raised by the BBC.

New complaints
She said whenever the commission is convened many new complaints are being registered so that the numbers would sharply increase. She further said not only the complaints lodged during the final phase of the war but the Paranagama commission is getting information of disappearance happened long before in the north and east.

Thyagi Ruwanpathirana said currently the commission is not investigating any complaints but only a undertaking a face to face justification of information. If the complainers wish not to continue to the investigations they would be referred to take compensations.

All stakeholders
She said taking evidences against the enforced disappearance supposedly caused by the LTTE, EPDP and the army was held in Jaffna last Sunday before the Paranagama commission.

She said since there are five commissioners who direct the evidences and the commissioner closer to her alone inquired evidence for 35 to 40 complaints, by increasing the commissions time by three months the government is not expecting to investigate and complete thousands of complaints received.