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Ravikaran calls for DNA testing to identify Chemmani mass grave victims
Ravikaran calls for DNA testing to identify Chemmani mass grave victims by Thara
Mullaitivu District MP Thurairasa Ravikaran has called for DNA samples from families of the forcibly disappeared to be collected, with their consent, and compared with human remains recovered from the Chemmani mass grave.
Speaking in parliament, Ravikaran said there was a legal and scientific necessity to preserve genetic samples from families searching for their missing relatives and compare them with the remains uncovered at Chemmani.
He stressed that any such process must take place with the consent of famili
Seventeen years on, thousands of acres still occupied, MP tells parliament
Seventeen years on, thousands of acres still occupied, MP tells parliament by Thara
The Sri Lankan government cannot continue to hide behind national security to justify its occupation of civilian land in the North-East, the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam has told par
India presses Colombo on provincial polls, but Dissanayakes office stays silent
India presses Colombo on provincial polls, but Dissanayakes office stays silent by Thusiyan
Indias Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri has urged Sri Lanka to hold its long-delayed provincial council elections "at the earliest" and to fully implement the islands constitutional provisions to meet the aspirations of the Tamil people, though the Sri Lankan presidents office omitted any mention of Tamils from its own account of the talks.
The call came during Misris day-long visit to Colombo on 5 August, his first stand-alone trip to the island as foreign secretary, during which he met the Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake,
