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The U.S. State Department sanctions Sri Lankan Army Commander Shavendra Silva for alleged human rights violations during the final phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
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Forensic anthropologists from the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, report that more than 90 sets of human remains have been discovered near the town of Mannar. The mass grave is situated in an area that saw heavy fighting during the country's civil war.
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Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi visits Sri Lanka's Jaffna District to hand over 27,000 homes to Tamil survivors of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
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Sri Lanka marks the third anniversary of the end of its 26-year civil war with a large military parade in Colombo.
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The United Nations Human Rights Council urges Sri Lanka to "credibly investigate" possible war crimes committed during the Sri Lankan Civil War.
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The BBC says that without explaining why, the Sri Lankan government has banned its news crews from traveling to the north for public hearings of a commission investigating the civil war.
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A Sri Lankan government commission set up to look into the last years of the Sri Lankan Civil War holds a meeting in Vavuniya on the north of the island.
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A government-appointed commission in Sri Lanka investigating the country's civil war opens.
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Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse and other prominent Sri Lankans protest international calls and the appointment of a United Nations panel to investigate war crimes allegedly committed during the country's civil war with the Tamil Tiger separatists.
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Sri Lanka drops charges against ex-navy chief over 11 killings
2021
Probe against Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda highlighted extrajudicial killings during the nation’s 37-year ethnic war.
Sri Lanka have dropped charges against Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda, who was accused of being part of a group of 14 people who kidnapped 11 children and then murdered them after extorting money. The actual number of murdered children by the group is suspected to be higher. The crimes were carried out amid chaos in 2008 and 2009 during the Sri Lankan Civil War.