செம்மணி — நீதிமன்ற மேற்பார்வையிலான தோண்டுதல்கள்Chemmani — Court-Supervised Excavations in Jaffna
Chemmani is the forensic ledger of northern Sri Lanka's disappearances. First alleged in 1998 by a convicted soldier in the Krishanthi Kumaraswamy case, the Chemmani and Kokkuthoduvai sites have since produced repeated recoveries of skeletal remains under Sri Lankan magisterial supervision. The excavations sit inside OHCHR's standing evidence-preservation file under HRC resolution 60/1. This hub is a citation-only mirror — the archive routes families to ITJP, PEARL, and OMP for casework, and never aggregates its own counts.
The file so far
- Live deskChemmani / Kokkuthoduvai excavations — live desk
Court records, era-week updates, and the OHCHR standing file.
- Live deskEnforced Disappearances Desk
The upstream file — families still searching, PEARL/ITJP/OMP referrals.
- Institute fileChemmani institute file
State-silence ledger, journalist pack, perpetrator record, demands.
- Reading Room · v1.0 PDFChemmani accountability dossier
Downloadable citation-only dossier suitable for parliamentary use.
Sources cited
Tier-A only. Every load-bearing claim on this hub is anchored to a source below.
- OHCHR standing evidence-preservation mandate — HRC resolution 60/1 (2024) — OHCHR
- OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) — A/HRC/30/CRP.2 (2015) — OHCHR
- PEARL — Perpetuating impunity: The Chemmani mass graves — People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL)
- International Truth and Justice Project — Sri Lanka casework — ITJP