KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica appointed a fact-finding panel Monday to examine a May 2010 operation by security forces that killed more than 70 citizens in gritty slums during a state of emergency on the Caribbean island.

The government said the long-sought commission of inquiry will conduct a “fair and impartial” look at the deadly operation in Tivoli Gardens and a patchwork of other so-called “garrison” ghettos in West Kingston to catch the island’s biggest gang boss and exert legal authority over the area.