The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) was established by treaty between the United Kingdom Government and the Government of Ireland, made on 27 April 1999 in connection with the affairs of Northern Ireland, in order to locate 16 missing Irish and British people presumed murdered during The Troubles.
[11] Jean McConville was discovered by accident on Shelling Hill beach near Carlingford in County Louth in August 2003.
[12] The remains of Danny McIlhone were discovered near Ballynultagh in the Wicklow Mountains in November 2008[13] and formally identified using DNA analysis the following month.
[15] In 2010, the remains of Peter Wilson, Gerry Evans and Charlie Armstrong were exhumed,[16] meaning that nine of the 16 disappeared had been recovered.
[17] The current commissioners are Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, former head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service and former Northern Ireland Victims Commissioner, and Mr Frank Murray, former Secretary to the Government (Cabinet Secretary) and former Chairman of the Irish Public Appointments Service,[18] who took over from John Wilson.