LLRC final report by May 15

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LLRC final report by May 15

The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) is targeting the completion of its report to be handed over to President Mahinda Rajapaksa by May 15.
The Commission has commenced preparing the first draft, LLRC Media Spokesperson Lakshman Wickremasinghe said.
The draft, according to Wickremasinghe, is being prepared on the evidence received and analyzed by the LLRC.
According to him, expert knowledge had been required in processing certain evidence.
The LLRC has held public sittings in the districts of Jaffna, Batticaloa, Mannar, Trincomalee, Vavuniya, Matara, Ampara, Monaragala, Galle, Matara, Puttalam, and Anuradhapura. The Commission concluded its public sittings last month.
President Rajapaksa in May 2010 appointed the eight-member Commission to report on the lessons to be learnt from the events during the period from 21st February 2002 to 19th May 2009. The Commission is chaired by the former Attorney General Chitta Ranjan de Silva.
From the evidence the Commission gathered so far, the LLRC has suggested immediate administrative measures to ease the lives of resettled Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and all people living in the former conflict areas and shrink High Security Zones (HSZs).
Implementing reconciliation measures suggested by the Inter-Agency Advisory Committee (IIAC) the government is gradually releasing lands occupied by the military as High Security Zones (HSZs) in the country, especially in the North.
The Sri Lanka Army officially handed over Subash Hotel on Victoria Road in Jaffna town in which the 52 Division Headquarters was established since December 1995, to its owner in March this year.
256 houses surrounding the Palaly HSZ have already been returned to civilians and another 2392 houses have been identified for civilian occupation in more than 2500 hectares of the land that was set apart for HSZs.
Courtesy : President's media unit