A/65/44 during the armed conflict between 1980 and 1992 and their families and, in general, the inadequate investigations and punishment and the lack of full redress and compensation in relation to those crimes. It also regrets the failure to search for adults who have disappeared (arts. 2, 4 and 16). The Committee reminds the State party that the crime of enforced disappearance is ongoing by nature and should be investigated for as long as its effects continue, until those responsible have been identified. Similarly, the Committee reiterates the recommendations of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and notes with concern that they have not been implemented in full. The Committee urges the State party to take rapid steps to ensure progress in the search for missing persons, the establishment of a programme of full redress and compensation for victims and their families and the prevention of further cases of enforced or involuntary disappearance. General Amnesty (Consolidation of the Peace) Act and recommendations of the Truth Commission (15) The Committee notes with satisfaction the Government’s statement that it will not maintain the position upheld by previous administrations of justifying the application of the Amnesty Act as necessary for the preservation of peace in the State party. It also notes that in its ruling of 26 September 2000, the Supreme Court held that, although the Amnesty Act is constitutional, judges may decide not to apply it when giving judgements on specific cases, adding that “it shall be for the judge to decide in each specific case when this exception applies, by means of an interpretation in keeping with the Constitution”, and that “if the events which gave rise to the civil responsibility of a public official or employee have not been covered by an amnesty — because they involve crimes which cannot be the subject of an amnesty — or if the amnesty granted breaches the Constitution, the obligation to provide compensation may be asserted before the competent courts”. However, the Committee considers that this Act violates the right to an effective remedy, since it hinders the investigation and punishment of all those responsible for human rights violations and stands in the way of the right to redress, compensation and rehabilitation of the victims. The Committee notes with concern that the State party has not implemented the recommendations made by the Truth Commission in 1993 (arts. 2, 4, 5 and 14). The Committee urges the State party to repeal the General Amnesty (Consolidation of the Peace) Act. In that regard, it draws the State party’s attention to paragraph 5 of its general comment No. 2 on the implementation of article 2 by States parties (CAT/C/GC/2), in which the Committee considers that amnesties or other impediments which preclude or indicate unwillingness to provide prompt and fair prosecution and punishment of perpetrators of torture or ill-treatment violate the principle of non-derogability. The Committee likewise recommends that all necessary steps should be taken to guarantee that investigations of cases of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment are carried out thoroughly, promptly and impartially, that the perpetrators are prosecuted and punished and that measures are adopted to provide redress and rehabilitation for the victims, in accordance with the provisions of the Convention. The Committee notes with satisfaction the willingness of the new Government to adopt a policy of full material and moral redress for the victims of human rights violations which have occurred in the present or the recent past. The Committee nevertheless urges the State party to take prompt steps to implement the recommendations of the Truth Commission, and in particular to prosecute and punish promptly and impartially those responsible for acts of torture, ill-treatment or enforced or involuntary disappearance, to remove from their posts all officials who have been identified as alleged perpetrators of human rights violations, to create a 30 GE.10-44721