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Disappearances and wartime killings

Unresolved killings and disappearances from the war years and their aftermath, as the cited reports describe them: the 2006 killing of five students in Trincomalee, the 2006 killing of 17 aid workers in Muttur, the 2011 disappearance of two activists in Jaffna, the Office on Missing Persons, and the mass graves at Mannar and Chemmani. It links to the Attorney General and the other maps. Dashed links are accusations and inquiry findings that no court has upheld. Who is buried in the graves has not been established in the cited reports.

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People (4)

• Dappula de Livera
  • Attorney General in 2019
• Gotabaya Rajapaksa
  • President of Sri Lanka, elected November 2019; Defence Secretary until 2015
• Lasantha WickrematungeDeceased
• Mahinda Rajapaksa
  • President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015; prime minister until May 2022

Organisations (7)

• Action Contre La Faim
  • Aid organisation
• Jaffna Magistrate’s Court
  • Court
• Office on Missing Persons
  • Independent body set up by the government in 2018, according to the BBC report carried by Daily FT
• Presidential Commission of Inquiry into 16 major human rights cases
• Special Task Force (police)
  • Police unit
• Sri Lanka Army
  • The government’s land force in the war with the LTTE
• University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna)
  • Rights group

Cases and events (5)

• Chemmani mass grave, Jaffna
• Disappearance of Lalith Kumar Weeraraj and Kugan Muruganandhan, 2011
  • Two activists who disappeared in Jaffna in 2011
• Killing of 17 Action Contre La Faim workers, Muttur, 4 August 2006
• Killing of five students in Trincomalee, 2006
• Mannar mass grave, found 2018