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A wartime mass grave in Sri Lanka yields a baby bottle, children’s clothes and 141 skeletons

A wartime mass grave in Sri Lanka yields a baby bottle, children’s clothes and 141 skeletons

  • The identities of the dead and the cause and timing of their deaths are all unclear
  • Many think the victims could be civilians who disappeared during Sri Lanka’s civil war, which broke out in 1983 between government forces and ethnic Tamil rebels, who fought to create an independent homeland for the minority group
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