Sri Lanka, March 17 -- For decades, investigative journalist Nandana Weerarathne has wielded his pen to uncover Sri Lanka's darkest and most horrifying chapters, including the burning of the Jaffna Public Library and more recently, the Easter Sunday terror attack. Throughout his career, he has faced significant personal danger, being one of the few journalists to bravely speak out about the infamous torture chambers at Batalanda.

His decades-long struggle was, perhaps for the first time, vindicated when the Government tabled the Batalanda report in Parliament this week, nearly 27 years after it was handed to former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga by the Commission of Inquiry to investigate the creation and operation of unlaw...