Sri Lanka: JMO takes responsibility for burial of LTTE cadres

Monday, 29 October 2007

The Judicial Medical Officer (JMO) of Anuradhapura Ajith Jayasena yesterday said that he took the responsibility for the burial of 21 LTTE cadres killed in the pre-dawn attack on the Anuradhapura airbase last week.

The Anuradhapura JMO said that he took steps in this regard in accordance with the international norms followed in burying decomposed bodies adding that that the bodies were buried in a manner that it could be exhumed for further examination purposes if necessary.

Mr. Jayasena added that there were no facilities in the Anuradhapura hospital mortuary to keep the bodies. The bodies of the LTTE cadres killed in the attack on October 22 were brought to the Anuradhapura Hospital the next day and post-mortems were conducted for each of them from 1.00 p.m. till 9.15 p.m. the same day.

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Kingsly said:

Oh, Now a JMO does not know the judicial procedure that an order from the Magistrate? Lucky for the patients that he is dealing with only dead bodies.

2007-10-29 14:47:29