Sri Lanka mass grave called 'a crime site'

The remains of more than 150 people have been excavated in the town of Matale in central Sri Lanka.

The skeletal remains were discovered late last year by workers building a facility at a hospital in Matale. Dr Ajith Jayasena, Matale hospital's judicial medical officer in charge of the investigation, told that the site "is a crime scene". Bone samples will be sent abroad to find out when they died and soil analysis of the area is also being done, investigators said. Basil Fernando, the executive director of the Asian Human Rights Commission, stated that "criminal justice" remains the "greater area of difficulty". The Matale area was an epicentre of a late 1980s uprising by leftist Sinhalese group, the JVP, in which the state matched the guerrillas' extreme violence, he said.

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