Jul 6, 2016
The ‘Presidential Commission to Investigate Complaints Regarding Missing Persons’, otherwise known as the ‘Paranagama Commission’ or the ‘PCICMP’, was an unusual body which has taken at least three different forms since its establishment by President Rajapaksa in August 2013. Whilst failing in each, it has succeeded in doing considerable damage to the level of trust war survivors have in Sri Lanka’s reconciliation process. This damage must be repaired if the Office of Missing Persons that ought to replace it is to ever restore that trust.