Many cadres and leaders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who surrendered to the forces at the end of the civil war in 2009 were still missing, a government panel looking into the war was told in Jaffna. The eight-member Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) held public sessions in and around the Jaffna peninsula over the weekend. It was set up in May 2009 by the government to look into the temporary ceasefire followed by the last years of civil war between the 2002 and 2009. According to the Sunday Times newspaper, Jayavathi, wife of one time LTTE politburo member Yogaratnam Yogi, claimed that, her husband had surrendered to the military, along with several senior LTTE cadres, but they have not been heard of since then. "My husband Yogi, Puthuvai Ratnadurai (in charge of the LTTE’s fine arts division) Lawrence Thilakar (in charge of the LTTE’s European division), Baby Subramanian and some others surrendered to the military at Vattuvahal on May 18, 2009…and they were all taken way in a bus. We have not heard from them since then," Jayavathi was quoted by the newspaper as having told the LLRC.