A wartime mass grave in Sri Lanka yields a baby bottle, children’s clothes and 141 skeletons

CHEMMANI, Sri Lanka — A baby bottle, a squeaky toy and a schoolbag are among items that have surfaced from a mass grave site in Sri Lanka’s formerly war-torn northern region, along with 141 human skeletons including some that appear to be of children of different ages. The findings were made at a cremation ground in the Chemmani area near Jaffna town, the cultural heartland of the country’s ethnic Tamil minority . But hardly any burials take place here, as Hindus mostly cremate their dead according to religious customs.