A/HRC/22/16 stemming from the conflict, while maintaining sustainable economic growth and preventing acts of destabilization, had placed primacy on non-repetition of past mistakes and genuine reconciliation. 9. On the allegedly disappeared, ongoing engagement with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance and recent progress to clear the backlog was outlined. The relatively small number of cases reported by the WGEID post-2005 laid to rest the canard of increasing disappearances. The addressing of this challenge could be better addressed if countries receiving asylum seekers would cooperate by identifying the names of such persons. Sri Lankan authorities had successfully resolved many of the supposed disappearances and outstanding allegations would be thoroughly investigated. 10. Civil society’s rights had received constitutional recognition. They had freedom to form non-governmental and community-based organizations. Regarding allegations of intolerance or attacks against these organizations or their leadership, it was noted that there was no Government policy to stifle criticism, activism or dissent, and that the Government did not condone such attacks. 11. The President had appointed the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) in May 2010 to strengthen the national reconciliation process and ensure the dividends of peace to Sri Lankans. In May 2012, the Cabinet decided that a Task Force would monitor the implementation of LLRC recommendations. In July, a matrix containing the National Plan of Action to implement the recommendations was developed, approved and published by the Task Force. Noting that the primary focus of the ill-conceived March 2012 resolution of the Human Rights Council had been the implementation of the LLRC report, Sri Lanka recalled that it had repeatedly assured the Council of its commitment to implement the domestic process and requested time and space. 12. A time frame for implementation was in process. Thematic sub-committees had been created under the task force for better coordination and implementation. Recommendations were further subdivided and related to: National Policy; final phase of the conflict; Human Rights and National Security concerns; and resettlement and development. Certain matters of broad national policy in the Action Plan are referred to the proposed Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC). On the Action Plan, specific examples of completion or substantial progress on activities were provided. Suggestions that only some of the recommendations were addressed for implementation and that there was no progress were unfounded. Detailing progress in relation to ex-combatants, specific information of persons rehabilitated and reintegrated into society (including child combatants), as well as those being processed, were provided. 13. Regarding resettlement, the delegation stressed that resettled persons must be provided with “durable solutions”. With closure of the last welfare centre in September, Sri Lanka will deal with IDPs residing with host families and in protracted displacement. Sri Lanka had resettled 501,194 persons by October. The “older caseload” of IDPs includes tens of thousands of Muslim residents of the North, forcibly evicted by the LTTE in 1990/1991 in pursuance of their policy of ethnic cleansing, and thousands of Sinhalese similarly evicted. The total number of houses constructed in the Northern and Eastern Provinces up to September is 124,184 was at the cost of SL Rs 33.34 billion from 2005. 14. Progress was achieved in demining to enable resettlement. As at October 2012, about 98 per cent of the areas identified were cleared. The Army was responsible for demining approximately 75 per cent of the land. Management of land in the North and East was a priority. A programme to resolve land disputes had been implemented. Steps that will enable the Government to gain an understanding of the magnitude and ramifications of the conflict and which would conclusively lay to rest the unfounded allegations of “tens of 4