The sittings are to commence at 9:30 a.m. at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies.
President Rajapaksa appointed the Commission to probe the events in the period between 21st February 2002 to 19th May 2009 and report on the lessons to be learnt from those events and whether any person, group, or institution directly or indirectly bears responsibility for those events.
According to local media reports, there will be six public sittings in Colombo while two sittings will be held in Vavuniya this month.
The eight-member panel has already met several times to discuss modalities of work and it was decided to hold sittings in the affected areas in the North and East to enable the public to have easy access to the commission and enhance awareness of its work.
The Commission will also invite on its own motion persons who represent a broad spectrum of views and who have been actively engaged in the areas falling within its domain to testify before the Commission.
The Reconciliation Commission is chaired by the former Attorney General Chitta Ranjan de Silva and it includes President's Counsel Dr. Amrith Rohan Perera, Prof. Mohamed Thahir, Professor Karunaratne Hangawatte of the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV), Attorneys-at-Law Mohamed Jiffry, Chandirapal Chanmugam, H.M.G. Siripala Palihakkara, Mrs. Manohari Ramanathan and Maxwell Parakrama Paranagama.
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