BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka -- For over 30 years, Thangamuthu Jayasingam has had the number 158 etched in his memory as a painful legacy of Sri Lanka's civil war. It is the count of Tamil boys and men, ages 11 to 56, who were "disappeared" from a refugee camp at a national university in Batticaloa on the eastern corner of the island.
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Torches are distributed to protesters, mainly relatives of those who disappeared amid Sri Lanka's civil war, during a demonstration in the north of the country in August 2022. © Reuters
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