COLOMBO, May 29 -- The government aims to complete investigations into all 11,000 pending complaints related to enforced disappearances within the next two years, Justice and National Integration Minister Harshana Nanayakkara said, stressing that the probes cannot continue indefinitely.

Speaking during an interview on current political and public affairs on a private television channel on Thursday (28), Nanayakkara said 15 committees have been deployed island-wide to handle the cases, with a target of resolving 5,000 complaints this year and the remaining 6,000 next year.

The minister said the government came to power on a platform of reconciliation and claimed that communities in the Northern and Eastern Provinces had extended strong s...