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The Sri Lankan security forces in Jaffna paid their respects to Denzil Kobbekaduwa, marking his 32nd death anniversary at the memorial in Jaffna. Jaffna District Commander Chandana Wickramasinghe and other high officials of Sri Lanka's tri-forces participated in the event. This memorial is one of several built by the Sri Lankan military across the Tamil homeland. A statue of the commander also stands in Vavuniya.
He was killed in August 1992 in Kayts, after the vehicle he was travelling in hit a landmine. A presidential commission carried out by the then Sri Lankan government speculated that senior military and political figures were involved in the assassination. Kobbekaduwa is accused of orchestrating and overseeing several abuses, including the disappearance of hundreds of youth from Mandaitivu, Allaipaddy, and Mankumban from August to September 1990, as the Sri Lankan military launched an offensive. ITAK MP Sritharan once claimed that more than 100 Tamil victims may remain buried in a mass grave on the islet of Mandaitivu.
