Explore sourced Sri Lankan cases with allegations, investigative steps and court outcomes kept distinct. The archive includes five adjudicated files and three unresolved or partially accountable cases, now including the Bindunuwewa detention-centre massacre.
Cases appear here after reliable court records establish a conviction or equivalent adjudicated outcome; current enforcement gaps are stated explicitly.
Krishanthi Kumaraswamy and three people who searched for her were murdered near a military checkpoint. Six defendants were convicted; one remained unaccounted for.
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Five men were convicted after four people were killed during election-day political violence. The Supreme Court upheld the appealed convictions and later invalidated Duminda Silva’s presidential pardon.
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Jude Jayamaha was convicted of murder on appeal. A 2019 presidential pardon released him, but the Supreme Court invalidated it in 2024; a Red Notice was reported in July 2025 and enforcement remains incomplete.
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DNA testing cleared earlier suspects and linked Saman Jayalath to the crime. The Negombo High Court convicted him in March 2016 and imposed a death sentence plus custodial terms.
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Coordinated suicide bombings killed more than 260 people. Courts later found prevention failures and convicted two former security officials, while appeals and wider conspiracy proceedings remain open.
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A mob killed 27 Tamil detainees while armed police were present. Five convictions were overturned, and no one remained convicted.
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The Sunday Leader editor was killed near Colombo on January 8, 2009. Investigators later pursued allegations involving military intelligence personnel, but no one has been convicted; a September 2026 review records that no indictment followed the completed police file.
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The political cartoonist vanished two days before the 2010 election. Nine military-intelligence officers were indicted, but a Trial-at-Bar was still hearing evidence in July 2026 and his fate remains unknown.
Open case file →Crime by Region separates investigation from charge, charge from conviction and conviction from enforcement. Five files contain adjudicated outcomes; three cases remain unresolved or only partially accountable and are not presented as proof against unconvicted individuals.