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Sri Lanka’s bloody past revealed in mass graves

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December 5, 2025

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In Chemmani, northern Sri Lanka, a mass grave uncovered earlier this year is forcing a nation to confront the darkest chapters of its past. More than 200 skeletons, some of them children, have been exhumed near a former war zone, reviving the anguish of Tamil families who have spent decades searching for loved ones who disappeared during the country’s civil war. CNN’s Hanako Montgomery has more.

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