- 16 March 2024
Tamil Tiger fighters killed in Sri Lanka war buried ‘chaotically’ in secret mass grave
Latest findings from a secret burial site in Sri Lanka reveal that bodies of male and female Tamil Tiger combatants who died in war with state security forces have neither been handed over to the International....
- 23 February 2024
Sri Lanka’s most recently found mass grave contains bodies from mid 90s
Forensic archaeologists believe the bodies exhumed from the Kokkuthoduvai mass grave in Sri Lanka’s war-torn Vanni region to have been unceremoniously buried between 1994 and 1996. This....
- 22 November 2023
Sri Lanka police in the crosshairs for torture and death, once again
Scores of angry Tamils took to the streets in northern Sri Lanka demanding justice for a young man who died in custody. On Tuesday, protesters condemning police brutality carried placards in Tamil, Sinhala......
- 20 August 2022
Tamil mothers of disappeared fear the worst as bodies wash ashore in Colombo
Families searching for their enforced disappeared relatives fear that the bodies washed ashore within last few weeks along the Colombo coast could be that of their beloved ones as the relentless struggle......
- 17 December 2023
Police officer nabbed over disappearance of Sri Lankan held in navy torture site
Sri Lanka police have arrested a police officer accused of abducting a man who disappeared in the aftermath of the war following arbitrary detention in a secret navy torture site. The officer in charge of the....
- 20 July 2023
Sri Lanka: International expertise ruled out in newly found mass grave exhumations
As suspicion and fear grow regarding the findings of human remains in Kokkuthoduvai in war torn Mullaitivu district, exhumations were further delayed a week after a high-level meeting ruled out any.........
- 24 February 2022
Excavations to resume on Sri Lanka’s largest mass grave
A court in north-western Sri Lanka has ordered to recommence investigations - halted three years ago - on the largest mass grave found in the country. Following a request made by Tamil.........
