Mahinda Rajapaksa appointed a former international judge of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Motoo Noguchi from Japan to the country's 'Presidential Commission to Investigate into Complaints Regarding Missing Person', reports Colombo Page.
Motoo is the seventh international expert to be appointed to the domestic probe. The probe's chair has already made clear that the experts have only been included in an advisory capacity.
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The Tamil National Alliance, the Tamil National People's Front, and the prominent civil society campaigner, the Bishop of Mannar, have criticised the domestic inquiry, stating it is unable to provide justice to the Tamils.
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