US EditionEx-Sri Lanka president ordered police records destroyed to stall mass grave probes, report alleges
- Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was accused of tampering with police records to obstruct investigations into mass graves discovered during the Marxist insurrection in 1989 where he served as a military officer.
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Ex-Sri Lanka President Ordered Police Records Destroyed to Stall Mass Grave Probes, Report Alleges
The report said Rajapaksa, then a powerful defense official, ordered the destruction of all police records older than five years after mass graves were discovered in the Matale district of central Sri Lanka in 2013.
Ex-Sri Lanka president ordered police records destroyed to stall mass grave probes, report alleges
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Sri Lanka's former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was accused in a report released Thursday 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.
Ex-Sri Lanka president ordered police records destroyed to stall mass grave probes, report alleges
Sri Lanka’s former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was accused in a report released Thursday 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.
Ex-Sri Lanka president ordered police records destroyed to stall mass grave probes, report alleges
FILE- Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa attends a conference aimed at reconciliation in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. Sri Lankas former President Rajapaksa was accused in a report released Thursday, June 22, 2023, 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. (AP Photo/ G…
Ex-Sri Lanka president ordered police records destroyed to stall mass grave probes, report alleges
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 insurrectio...
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