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Ex-Sri Lanka president ordered police records destroyed to stall mass grave probes, report alleges

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By KRISHAN FRANCIS
Associated Press

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A new report accuses Sri Lanka’s former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of tampering with police records in order to hamper investigations into mass graves discovered in an area where he was a military officer at the height of a bloody Marxist insurrection in 1989. The report released Thursday by activist groups says even though hundreds of remains were unearthed in some 20 exhumations of mass graves in the past three decades, no action has been taken to identify the victims and return their remains to their families. It says tens of thousands of remains could still be buried in undiscovered mass graves.

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