Sri Lanka, July 11 -- Sri Lanka's largest Tamil political party, Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK), has written to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake seeking the involvement of independent, internationally respected forensic experts to oversee all stages of the investigation into the mass grave in Chemmani, a village in northern Jaffna.

Expressing profound concern regarding the on-going exhumation at Chemmani, the Tamil party urged urgent and decisive action to uncover the truth, ensure forensic protocols meet internationally recognized standards, and bring perpetrators to justice.

Chemmani has come to represent Sri Lanka's unresolved legacy of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings extending into the mid-1990s, ITAK said i...