Ingrid Massagé

Ingrid Massage was a Sri Lanka researcher at Amnesty International and attended the 1999 Chemmani exhumations. With a criminology background, she now chairs the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice.

More mass graves at Chemmani and Sri Lanka’s old failures of justice

An observer of the 1999 Chemmani exhumations reflects on newly uncovered mass graves and Sri Lanka’s continued failure to deliver justice for Tamil victims of war-time crimes

By Ingrid Massagé

/ 28 Oct 2025

An archaeologist at the the Chemmani mass grave site excavates partially unearthed human skeletons from the sandy ground, wit