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    President appoints OMP Commissioners

    March 01, 2018

    His Excellency the President Maithripala Sirisena handed over the appointment letters to the commissioners of the Office of Missing Persons (OMP) at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday (28th Feb. 2018).

    The OMP law was passed in Parliament in Aug 2016 and will now be operational. The OMP is tasked with determining the status of all missing persons in Sri Lanka and is the first pillar of the Transitional Justice mechanisms under design and implementation.

    The Commissioners were appointed for a 3-year period and are;

    Mr Saliya Pieris, PC – Chairman/ OMP

    Ms Jayatheepa Punniyamoorthy – Member/OMP

    Major General (Rtd.) Mohanti Antonette Peiris – Member/ OMP

    Dr Sriyani Nimalka Fernando – Member/ OMP

    Mr Mirak Raheem – Member/ OMP

    Mr Somasiri K Liyanage – Member/ OMP

    Mr Kanapathipillai Venthan – Member/ OMP

    Sri Lanka’s National Budget for 2018 also made an allocation of Rs 1.3bn to establish the OMP.

    The Commissioners were selected in an open and competitive process conducted by the Constitutional Council (CC) of Sri Lanka and were nominated by them for appointment to HE the President.

    The OMP will be an independent body reporting to Sri Lanka’s Parliament and is expected to bring a degree of closure to surviving family members of Sri Lanka’s internal conflicts and will set the stage for sustainable reparations for victims and their families.

     

     

    Sudarshana Gunawardana
    Attorney-at- Law
    Director General of Government Information
    Issued on 01 st March 2018

    Last modified on Thursday, 01 March 2018 11:20

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