The Office of Missing Persons Act will be operational from January 1 said Sri Lanka's foreign affairs minister Mangala Samaraweera this week.
"The Constitutional Council would then nominate seven members. and the Consultation Task Force would submit its report to the President with recommendations for a truth-seeking mechanism," he was quoted as saying to the Daily Mirror.
The OMP bill was criticised by relatives of the missing and human rights organisations.
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