Article: Possible mass grave unearthed in Eastern Sri Lanka.

Article: Mass grave found in Sri Lanka; ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  December 27, 2000 ;     538 words ...COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Eight Tamil civilians were found dead in a mass grave in Jaffna a week after they were detained by soldiers ... They say the Tamils, who make up 3.2 million of Sri Lanka's 18.6 million people, can prosper only away ...

Article: Mass Grave Probe Opens in Sri Lanka
AP Online;  June 16, 1999 ;     512 words ... ... Associated Press Writer AP Online 06-16-1999 Mass Grave Probe Opens in Sri Lanka JAFFNA, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Workers began digging Wednesday at a suspected site of a mass grave thought to hold the remains of nearly 300 minority ...

Article: A mother's hope turns to despair for daughter torn from boyfriend ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  January 2, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... the wave last week while on holiday in Sri Lanka. Checks on the island's morgues and ... had been on holiday in Tangalle, on Sri Lanka's southern coast, staying at a guest ... knew Becky and her boyfriend were in Sri Lanka. I knew the resort where they were staying ...

Article: US DEPT OF STATE: Sri Lanka -- Report on ...
M2 Presswire;  December 13, 1999 ;     521 words ... ... December 1999-US DEPT OF STATE: Sri Lanka -- Report on mass grave investigation (C)1994 ... December 6 the Government of Sri Lanka submitted to a Magistrate in ... site at Chemmani in northern Sri Lanka. The report indicated that ...

Article: Remains of 15 people found in tsunami-hit southern Sri ...
AP Worldstream;  February 14, 2005 ;     342 words ... ... 14-2005 Dateline: COLOMBO, Sri Lanka The remains of 15 people have ... tsunami-devastated southern Sri Lanka, pushing the country's death ... before the remains were buried in a mass grave. Sri Lanka's National Disaster Management ...

Article: Sri Lanka
World Press Encyclopedia;      700+ words ... ... were specially invited to Sri Lanka in October 1998 by the country's Attorney General of Sri Lanka to investigate reports of a mass grave in Jaffna, has noted a marked ... human rights situation in Sri Lanka as compared to the "widespread ...

Article: FORENSIC TEAM BEGINS SEARCH FOR MASS GRAVE.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  March 6, 1999 ;     322 words ... ... experts began work in a muddy field in northern Sri Lanka yesterday, investigating a reported mass grave said to contain 300 civilians killed by the ... 1983 to establish a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's 3.3 million Tamils.