The Sri Lankan government appointed commission that went into the civil war and events since the breakdown of truce with the Tamil Tigers in 2002 submitted its report to President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday.
According to a local English newspaper, the Sunday Times, the 400-page report, has recommended that the government “investigate incidents that may have occurred during the final stages of the war”. Officials said the report would be first presented to Parliament ahead of it being made public.
Mr. Rajapaksa had made it clear that the contents of the report will be made public.
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The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) was constituted by the President on May 15 last, soon after the U.N. Secretary-General visited Sri Lanka and decided to conduct its own probe. The former Attorney-General, C.R. De Silva, functioned as the Chairman of the Commission.
The final report was prepared after 57 public sessions, 12 field visits at over 40 locations to talk to the people in the North and East and in other affected areas, spread across 11 months. More than a thousand people appeared before the Commission to make representations and the Commission additionally received and analysed over 5100 written submissions.
The Commission also held unscheduled meetings with the general public especially in areas affected by conflict and in IDP settlements.
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