by International Truth & Justice Project Sri Lanka, South Africa, ongoing
Sisira Mendis ITJP The-case-against-Sisira-Mendis-final 2016
Major General (ret.) Jagath Dias ITJP_Jagath_Dias_dossier-final_210816_120919 2017
General (ret.) Jagath Jayasuriya
Profile & Command Responsibility ITJP_JJ_fact_sheet_1_v8.1
Joseph Camp Role ITJP_JJ_fact_sheet_2_v5
Attacks on Hospitals 2009 ITJP_JJ_fact_sheet_3_v6
Executions & Disappearances ITJP_JJ_fact_sheet_4_v4
Conflict Timeline & Map ITJP_JJ_fact_sheet_5_v5
August 2017
Major General Priyanka ‘Api’ Fernando ITJP brigadier_api_fernando_final May 2018
Mahinda Samarasinghe ITJP 6-march-press-release-corrected Mahinda Samarasinghe August 2018
Chief of Army Staff Shavendra Silva ITJP shavendra-Silva_-final-dossier January 2019
Major General (ret.) G. Vijitha Ravipriya ITJP 2019_may_the_men_-now_patrolling_sri_lanka_itjp__jds May 2019 As of 2021, he was DG Customs.
Major General Dharshana Hettiarachchi ITJP 2019_may_the_men_-now_patrolling_sri_lanka_itjp__jds May 2019
Reported in 2019 to be: Head of National Action Plan on Counter Radicalization & Terrorism from the Ministry of Defence (MOD). Feb. 2020: appointed Rehabilitation Commissioner General and also Head of the Office of National Action Plan for Countering and Preventing Radicalization, Violent Extremism, and Terrorism under MOD.
Major General (ret.) Satyapriya Liyanage, page 7 May 2019 Chief of Army Staff until June 2020 when retired.
Major General Sumedha Perera, page 16 ITJP ECF-No.-0066-3-Exhibit-B-to-Sooka-Decl August 2019 He was appointed Secretary to Ministry of Agriculture, Mahaweli, Rural Development & Irrigation in 2020 but stood down in 2021.
SSP Prasanna de Alwis, page 43 ITJP ECF-No.-0066-3-Exhibit-B-to-Sooka-Decl August 2019 As of Feb. 2020, TID Director, according to this report. Then in June 2020, transferred to CID Director. And in Oct. 2020 back to TID according to this report.
General (ret.) Kamal Gunaratne ITJP Kamal-Gunaratne-dossier-final-optimized December 2019 Secretary of Defence from 2019.
C A Chandraprema (Ambassador to Geneva from 2020) ITJP chandraprema-dossier-final March 2020 C.A.Chandraprema was a member during the late eighties of a death squad responsible for the murders of hundreds of people, including human rights lawyers, journalists, university students and school children. Chandraprema was known as “Thadi Priyantha” at the time and was a key member of the People’s Revolutionary Red Army or PRRA, one of many shadowy armed groups working with the military to target suspects during a Sinhala youth uprising that saw 40,000 killed. PRRA routinely issued death threats to journalists and human rights activists, including staff from Amnesty International, whose reports at the time accused PRRA of being involved in executions and enforced disappearances.
Major General (ret.) Daya Ratnayake ITJP Major-General-Daya-Ratnayake May 2020
Brigadier Chandana Wickramasinghe ITJP Brigadier-Chandana-Wickramasinghe-dossier May 2020
Major General K. Jagath Alwis ITJP Major-General-K-J-Alwis-dossier July 2020
Major General (ret.) Nanda Mallawarchchi ITJP Major-General-Nanda-Mallawarchchi July 2020
Gamini de Silva (deceased) ITJP: Gamini Silva February 2025
Collection of dossiers – ITJP ECF-No.-0066-3-Exhibit-B-to-Sooka-Decl
This collection of dossiers seeks to identify and track the career history of alleged perpetrators of
torture and extrajudicial killings in Sri Lanka. Note that this compilation does not purport to be
comprehensive, given that the dossiers are based on information that is publicly available in conjunction
with witness statements provided to ITJP by victims of torture.1 Therefore, to the extent that ranks, titles,
positions and locations of alleged perpetrators were not available in the public domain, such individuals
would not be included in this compilation.
Dossiers for alleged war criminals Shavendra Silva and Jagath Dias can be accessed using the
following links respectively:
http://www.itjpsl.com/assets/shavendra‐Silva_‐final‐dossier.pdf
http://www.itjpsl.com/assets/ITJP_Jagath_Dias_dossier‐final.pdf