JVP to present affidavits from families in Matale with missing members

The JVP is planning to present affidavits to court from family members of individuals who had disappeared from the Matale area during the 1988-1989 period. The party is to make these representations to court when the case on the Matale mass grave is to be taken up on May 8.

JVP Propaganda Secretary and Gampaha district MP Vijitha Herath said that the party has already collected information from families of one hundred people who had gone missing during the JVP insurgency in the late 1980s.

He said the party would present the affidavits from the families and request the court for DNA tests to be carried out on the skeletal remains. He noted that the JVP would intervene in the case to identify the victims buried in the mass grave that has been found to be from the period between 1986 and 1990. The Matale mass grave was uncovered last November and 154 skeletal remains have been unearthed from the grave.