HRCSL report raises concerns of unlawful burials and extrajudicial killings at Chemmani mass grave in Sri Lanka.
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) said there exists a reasonable likelihood that the burials at the Chemmani mass grave in the north were unlawful and a result of extrajudicial killings.
“There is a reasonable likelihood that the burials were unlawful and pursuant to extrajudicial killings,” said HRCSL in a report issued on Wednesday following their visit to the site on August 3 and 4.
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