Would discovery of mass grave expose brutality of SLFP led UF & UNP?
THURSDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2012 
A large number of decayed parts of human skeletons were found when a pit was dug for a bio-gas unit of Matale Hospital on the 26th and the Additional District Magistrate Mrs. Chathurika de Silva ordered Matale Headquarters Police to excavate the area to determine whether there were any more human bones.
The excavations commenced on the 27th under Judicial Medical Officer Dr. Ajith Jayasena and yesterday a large number of parts of skeletons and 6 skulls were unearthed.
According to police the bone parts of 8 skeletons have been found and excavations had to be stopped due to heavy rain experienced in the area.
It is suspected that the skeletons unearthed from the hospital grounds at Matale could be of those murdered during the JVP uprising in 1971 and the pit could be a mass grave where bodies of murdered activists were buried.
The main reason for such suspicion is that an Army camp had existed during that period in the building where the present wards 11 and 12 are.
The residents say a large number of youths arrested during this period were detained in the Army camp maintained in the hospital complex and they were subjected to various inhuman tortures.
It was no secret that the United Front government led by the SLFP that was in power then backed such killings.
