In many countries, the people in power after a conflict ends are the same as those who committed ─ or permitted ─ atrocities and thus have much to lose. In the mid and late 1990s, the Sri Lankan Presidential Commission on Disappearances recorded over 10,000 cases of missing persons from the South since the mid-1980s. Despite its findings and recommendations, there were few prosecutions and enforced disappearance was not made a crime. Since 1990, the ICRC has collected information on over 12,000 people reported unaccounted for in connection with the conflict in the north-east.