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Article: Mass Grave Probe Opens in Sri Lanka
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- June 16, 1999
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GEMUNU AMARASINGHE, 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 Tamils who disappeared while in military custody three years ago.
Relatives of the missing people watched the excavation together with five Western observers, including a representative from Amnesty International.
The Sri Lankan government ordered the digging after a soldier convicted last year of the rape and murder of a Tamil family told judges he had helped bury the victims of other soldiers.
The convicted soldier, Lance Cpl. Somaratne ...
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