Level of implementation and
observations (to be completed
by the WGEID)
resources as well as ample
powers, including the
power to summon current
and former officials;
We have to go through the act and see whether these suggestions are included. Whatever it
includes should become a reality. Rs.700 million has been allocated by this budget to TC.
available on the resources and
powers that are envisaged for the
Commission and reiterates its
recommendation on the matter.
(e) Have the capacity to
subpoena information from
any source and witness,
enter any State institution
and have free access to any
State archive;
Families of the Disappeared
The Working Group notes that
no information is available as to
whether the Commission will
have power to subpoena
information and reiterates its
recommendation on the matter.
(f) Be equipped
technical
including
expertise,
to
exhumations.
Situation during
the visit
A/HRC/33/51/Ad
d.2
We have to go through the act and see whether these suggestions are included. Whatever it
includes should become a reality. Rs.700 million has been allocated by this budget to TC.
with the
capacity,
forensic
conduct
82. The Working Group
also recommends that the
Government of Sri Lanka:
The Working Group notes that at
this stage no information is
available on the envisaged
capacities of the Commission
and
reiterates
its
recommendation.
Paragraph 21- 33
(a) Transfer the cases of the
Presidential Commission
on Missing Persons to a
credible and independent
truth-seeking
institution
established
in
close
consultation
with
the
families of the disappeared;
and ensure that those
involved in the process of
the search for truth were
76
OMP Act, above n 16, Section 10(1)(e).
Government
The Office on Missing Persons established by an act of Parliament has been provided with
the mandate, in section 10 (e) to collate data related to missing persons obtained by processed
presently being carried out, or which were previously carried out, by other institutions,
organizations, Government Departments and Commissions of Inquiry and Special
Presidential Commission of Inquiry and centralize all available data within the database
established under the Act.
OMP
The OMP has explicit authority to collate data related to missing persons obtained by
processes being presently being carried out, or which were previously carried out by other
institutions including past commissions of inquiry and to centralise all available data within
a database.76
The Working Group welcomes
information according to which
the OMP now has access to the
records of past commissions of
inquiry and hopes the cases can
be promptly transferred and
recorded in the OMP’s case load.
The Working Group is extremely
concerned
by
information
received according to which
some individuals suspected of
having been involved in the
commission
of
enforced
disappearances and related
offences are being permitted to
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Recommendations
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