Uma Kumaran presses Foreign Secretary on Muttur massacre
Uma Kumaran has urged the Foreign Office to work with British experts on mass grave protection and to press Sri Lanka over the unpunished killing of 17 aid workers at Muttur, in a parliamentary exchange that took place days before her own appointment as a Minister in the Department, Tamil Guardian reported recently. Questioning the […]
Labour MP Uma Kumaran pressed the then Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper during a parliamentary exchange on the unpunished killing of 17 aid workers at Muttur in 2006. Kumaran, who was recently appointed as a Minister in the Department, raised concerns about the protection of mass graves and the excavation of the alleged Chemmani mass grave in Jaffna, where over 400 sets of remains had been recovered.
She emphasized the need for international monitoring and protection of evidence collection for future accountability. Kumaran also inquired about the possibility of collaborating with Bournemouth University, which developed the Bournemouth Protocol on Mass Grave Protection and Investigation. Cooper acknowledged the importance of the issues and expressed her intention to look into the matter, including the Bournemouth protocol and DNA identification involving affected families.
She also agreed to check and report back on the individual case of the Muttur massacre, which she claimed had been raised with the Sri Lankan government.
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