Sri Lanka, June 25 -- Excavations of over a year at the Chemmani mass grave at the entrance of Jaffna city have unearthed over 400 skeletal remains, many belonging to children. Some reports put the number at 412 by Monday, with the exhumation of 13 more skeletal remains on that day.
Even before the completion of this gruesome task, the grim discovery has officially made Chemmani the largest mass grave site in Sri Lanka, surpassing the 376 remains recovered in 2018 at a former wholesale depot in the heart of Mannar town.
Chemmani drew more attention than Mannar even before it surpassed the latter in number of victims. In Mannar, numbers were undermined by a controversy over the possible period of deaths of those whose skeletal remains...