Measures taken/current situation Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Ad d.2 OMP The OMP provided support to the investigations into the suspected mass grave site in Mannar in a number of capacities. 79 The OMP provided financial support to the excavations by covering the costs of food, lodging and miscellaneous items of the excavation team, and the costs of tarpaulin covers to protect the site from the monsoon rains. Further the OMP submitted guidelines for the Hon. Mannar Magistrate’s consideration during the selection of the bone and teeth samples for radio carbon dating and by being present during the process. The guidelines were submitted with a view to ensuring the chain of custody of the samples. The OMP further financially supported the cost of the carbon dating and the travel expenses of the Mannar, Judicial Medical Officer. Additionally, the OMP has continued to submit recommendations to the Magistrate to ensure public confidence in the investigation. In particular, the OMP has recommended that the future course of the investigation be determined based on a comprehensive report that includes all other information generated during the investigation in addition to the results of the carbon dating. ICJ In Paragraph 9 of its interim report the OMP stated that it has supported the excavation and exhumation work in the Mannar Mass Grave at the Sathosa building. According to paragraph 3.7 of the OMP’s Annual Report, since July 2018, the OMP has supported the costs of food and lodging of the excavation team and provided additional funds for covers to protect the grave site from rain. It also collaborated with relevant officials to ensure the grave site is investigated in a manner that ensures public confidence and trust. Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) establishing the fate and whereabouts of some of the disappeared, the Working Group calls for efforts to be stepped up with regard to other possible sites. The Working Group is also concerned by information according to which in some sites vital evidence found during construction and other activities is not being reported to the authorities. It calls on the authorities to take steps to ensure individuals are required to report all such discoveries and to ensure that all suspected locations are examined without delay. The Chairperson of the OMP also stated that the Office provided guidelines for selecting and recording bone and teeth samples as well as measures for securing the chain of custody of the samples. (e) Examine, without undue delay, all locations of potential mass graves; 79 Government See above. The OMP’s powers of investigation (section 12) extends “to apply to the appropriate Magistrate’s Court having territorial jurisdictions, for an order of Court to carry out an Office on Missing Persons, Press Release Office on Missing Persons acts as an observer when handing over bone samples from the Mannar mass grave to an international laboratory for carbon dating (30 January 2019) https://www.facebook.com/ompsrilanka/photos/a.2177156629210232/2232615643664330/?type=3&theater (accessed 29 May 2019). A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 60 Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.2