Amid no progress, pandemic could become an excuse to delay justice to the conflict-era victims

There has not been a single investigation in the five years since transitional justice commissions were formed and its term is expiring again in nine months.

Hardly had the new set of commissioners started their work at the two commissions set up to investigate the murders, tortures, rapes, disappearances and other cases of gross human rights violations during the 10 year civil conflict than the country went into a four-month lockdown and then in August came the prohibitory orders.