Commission Chairman Maxwell Paranagama has stated that they are currently finalising the report with two additional commissioners to be appointed to the Commission, to expedite the report.

“The Presidential Secretariat has approved the appointment of two additional Commissioners to expedite the hearings. At present the three Commissioners hear around 150 complaints for a day. The final report will include the Commission’s findings till end July,” he has said.

Approximately 2,300 complaints of disappearances have been heard by the Commission during their sittings in the North and East, while 3,500 complaints remain to be heard.

This week the Commissioners will decide on the location to hear complaints at their next sittings. The Commission, appointed in August 2013, on the recommendation of the Lessons Learnt & Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), was mandated to investigate disappearances from June 10, 1990 to May 19,2009 in the north and east.