The Commissioner, Mahanama Thilakaratne told a media briefing that there were complaints of missing persons numbering seven thousand one hundred and thirty made to police stations throughout the country.

He said investigations were completed in respect of 6543 cases and the Commission has found that 6633 persons have returned to their homes.

Out of 525 reported abductions, investigations have been concluded on 295 complaints. 250 abducted persons were found, he said.

Commissioner Thilakaratne said that the commission in its completed investigations found no security forces or police personnel involved in the incidents.

	Protest by the relatives of missing persons

"There is no evidence to say that member of police or three armed forces are connected to these incidents", Commissioner Thilakaratne said.

Publish the report

Convenor of the Citizens Monitoring Committee (CMC) and the leader of the Western Peoples Front Mano Ganesan rejecting Commissioner Mahanama Thilakaratna's statement say that he is waiting for the Mahanama commission report to be published.

"We hear bits and pieces but not the full report", he said.

If the commissioner says that missing persons have returned or gone abroad, he said that they like to see the list of them because Citizens Monitoring Committee has all the information of those missing persons including names and addresses, identity card numbers and police complaint log numbers.

Parliamentarian Mano Ganeshan told Sandesaya that they have sent a list of missing persons to the prime minister, the chairman of the Police Commission, and police stations.

He said that the CMC has being informed of the reported cases being investigated. "Therefore it is not possible to accept what the Commissioner says and this alone proves it is not true."

"We are talking about people missing in government controlled areas and people abducted in white vans", MP Ganesan said.

Responding to allegations by the commissioner that Non Governmental Organisations are tarnishing the image of the country by public claims of abductions, the parliamentarian said that the president, when in opposition has also revealed details of human rights violations in the country to the international community in the late eighties.

"The only difference is that Mahinda Rajapaksa spoke mainly about Sinhala youth and the majority who dissapear today are Tamils," added Mano Ganeshan.