Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains

The commission was created under legislation enacted (26 May 1999) in the British and Irish parliaments to supervise the recovery of the remains of the 'disappeared'. The 'disappeared' were those people who were abducted, killed, and secretly buried by (mainly) the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA). When first established Sir Kenneth Bloomfield and Mr John Wilson were appointed as Commissioners. On 6 March 2006 it was announced that Mr Frank Murray had taken over from Mr Wilson who had retired.