Government contracts Chinese firm to destroy bodies buried in Nandikadal lagoon

Diplomatic sources say that the government has permitted a Chinese firm to commence a project at the Nandikadal lagoon where Sri Lankan security forces had buried thousands of bodies of LTTE cadres during the final stages of the war last May.

The Chinese firm has been assigned to exhume the bodies and destroy them beyond recognition.

The project, which is to commence under the Fisheries Ministry, is to be carried out under the close supervision of the Defence Ministry.

  Fisheries Minister Rajitha Senaratne has already told the media that a Chinese firm has already requested for permission to commence a fisheries project in the Nandikadal lagoon.