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This is an archive article published on June 19, 1999
Exhumed remains displayed at Jaffna police station
COLOMBO, JUNE 18: Hundreds of grieving residents of northern Jaffna today held a demonstration at a local police station where the skelet...
Written by KJM Varma
June 19, 1999 12:00 AM IST
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COLOMBO, JUNE 18: Hundreds of grieving residents of northern Jaffna today held a demonstration at a local police station where the skeletal remains of two male bodies unearthed from a suspected mass grave were displayed for identification.
Over 400 people filed past the remains, displayed at a tent in the police station premises, sources from Jaffna said, adding that no one came forward to identify the remains, which included two skulls, bones and pieces of clothing.
The demonstrators demanded those responsible for the alleged mass killings be punished after a thorough investigation.
The bodies were exhumed yesterday from a grave at Chammani, about 12 km from Jaffna, following a judicial investigation ordered by the Lankan government into the allegation of mass killings by the army after it captured the Jaffna peninsula in 1995.
The allegations were made by a former soldier, who was sentenced to death in a rape and murder case of a Tamil girl and three of her relatives at Jaffna in 1996.
The convicted soldier, Lance Corporal Somaratne Rajapakse, was flown from Colombo to Jaffna along with observer of the International Human Rights Organisation three days ago to begin ground level investigations.
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