Mass burial claim by LTTE suspects to be probed

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Mass burial claim by LTTE suspects to be probed


The Government yesterday sent a high profile investigation team to inquire into the claim that more than 26 military personnel who were in LTTE custody and belong to Sri Lanka Army and the Navy had been killed and buried during the height of fighting between the Forces and the LTTE.
According to Army spokesman Major General Ubaya Medawala, four LTTE suspects in custody have confessed that 26 Security Forces personnel in LTTE custody were killed and buried by them in Pudukudurippu and Wallipuram areas where fierce fighting was taken place.
The suspects have told the investigators that these soldiers were captured by the LTTE during the height of the war.
The Terrorist Investigation Department had obtained a court order to inquire into the claim made by LTTE suspects, Major General Medawala further said
The investigation team comprising an Assistant Solicitor General, a Judicial Medical Officer, officials from the Government's Analyst's Department, Survey Department and two professors from the two leading universities has started the investigations in the Pudukudurippu area yesterday.