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Excavations at Chemmani mass grave halted over lack of funds
Excavation work on the mass grave at Chemmani in Sri Lanka's northern province has been halted pending fresh allocation ofContinue Reading
Summary
The lawyers said the funds for the remainder of the work are expected to be made available within the next two weeks. So far, 240 skeletal remains have been excavated. The lawyers close to the operation said that at the next court hearing scheduled for September 18, the judicial medical officer will submit an expenditure estimate for two more months to the court.
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Organisations
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam2
- ministry2
- Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi
- Human Rights Commission of
- Human Rights Commission
- Press Trust of India
- PTI
- The
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- Sri Lanka2
- Jaffna2
- Chemmani
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- excavation2
- grave2
- mass2
- over2
- insufficient
- allocation
- funding
- lawyers
- halted
- paused
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