The latest issue of Torture: Asian and Global Perspective is now available. In this issue we have exclusive reports on the Mass Graves in Sri Lanka. The report contains full detail of an extensive investigation conducted by the group of Sri Lankan forensic specialists on the case of the Chemmani Mass graves in Jaffna, a former war zone in the Island nation.
The investigative research has been published exclusively, with supported insights and other evidence, provided by reliable sources. This report is our first attempt to reveal the bitter truth of the miserable history of the Island nation which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives of unarmed civilians in less than four decades. According to reliable sources, there are around 30-40 mass graves in Sri Lanka.
Mass graves in post-independence Sri Lanka were first reported following the 1971 youth uprising led by the Peoples Liberation Front (known locally as JVP) which was brutally terminated by the then government. However the locations of these post 1971 mass graves are hidden from the public knowledge. Numerous mass graves have been clandestinely created by the Sri Lankan government during the second youth uprising led by the same political party in the 1987-1990 period. Virtually all mass graves reported in the northern and eastern provinces of the country were resulted from the thirty year long civil war between the LTTE and the ruling governments which ended in 2009 and said to have contained the remains of minority Tamil speaking people died during the war.
