More than 200 skeletons uncovered in mass grave in Sri Lanka, exposing its haunting history

Saaratha Iruthayanathar was three years old when she last saw her father leaving to get groceries, during the Sri Lankan civil war.

To this day, she still does not know whether he is dead or alive.

While travelling by boat to the Jaffna mainland in November 1990  — with a group of 12 people —…