Scepticism Over Latest Probe
- Analysts fear three experts’ advice may end like IIEGP
By Easwaran Rutnam-Sunday, July 20, 2014
Sir Desmond de Silva, Prof David Crane and Sir Geoffrey Nice
The Government announcement last week that the mandate of the Presidential Commission on missing persons had been expanded to investigate civilian deaths during the war and the appointment of three internationally acclaimed experts to advice the commission came as a surprise to many. Some fear if the advice of the three prominent experts are highly critical then they may just end up in the bin like the International Independent Eminent Group of Persons (IIEGP) in 2008.