Sri Lankan security forces blamed in report for crimes against humanity

12-year old son of a Tamil rebel leader

Tom Allard  - National Affairs Editor
Picture of Balachandran Prabhakaran, the 12-year old son of a Tamil rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. Assassination: Balachandran Prabhakaran, 12, the son of the Tamil Tigers commander, where he was allegedly held in captivity, before he was later found shot dead.
Sri Lankan security forces were responsible for the ''vast majority'' of alleged war crimes during the final months of its bloody civil war, and may have systematically destroyed mass burial sites of civilians in an apparent effort to destroy evidence, a new report has found.

The Trincomalee and the Mutur killings are symbols of all the other thousands of lives lost during the War

Kishaly Pinto Jayawaedena
Coaxing an inch of accountability from government stone? 
Tucked away in a small corner of Sri Lanka’s daily newspapers this Saturday was a government announcement on the arrest of twelve personnel of the Special Task Force (STF) including an assistant superintendant of police (ASP), allegedly responsible for the extra-judicial execution of five students in Trincomalee in 2006. The arrests had been made on ‘evidence available’, as we were informed. The alleged perpetrators were remanded until the next court date.