The Hon. Rauff Hakeem, Attorney-at-Law
Rauff Hakeem questioned the Government’s inaction on alleged mass graves linked to past violence, including sites at Hokandara, Gampaha, Matale and Sooriyakanda. He argued that even graves said to contain slain JVP members had not been excavated, and called for those sites to be investigated as well.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Alright. Look here. Thousands of your young people who dreamed of a new society and stood against injustice were killed—your own JVP organisation’s members. There are several Commission reports: Hokandara mass graves, the torture house nearby, Gampaha Essella School mass grave, Gampaha Vavulkelle mass grave, Walpita Government Farm mass grave, Ambagahahena Kanda mass grave, Bemmulla mass grave, Kottawakelle–Yakkamulla mass grave, Akurassa Wilpita mass grave, Ankumbura mass grave, Matale mass grave, Sooriyakanda mass grave—what are you doing about them? You have not even excavated the mass graves where your own members were killed. Excavate them too.
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Cite as: The Hon. Rauff Hakeem, Attorney-at-Law. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 9 July 2025. No. 1752660241032216. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/9362