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Jan 8, 2019 · Speaking at the memorial a niece of Lasantha Wickramatunda, Raisa Wickramatunga said a decade is a long time to grieve, it is too long to solve a murder and too long to come to terms that no one ...
Jul 6, 2022 · Those details and others are the pointillist dots of color that Silva, formerly a detective with Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department, has assembled into a vivid picture building what he says is the complicity of Sri Lanka’s current president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in the 2009 murder of journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge.
Mar 2, 2021 · In 2007, my father, Lasantha Wickrematunge, one of Sri Lanka’s most fiercely independent journalists, exposed an arms deal involving then-Secretary of Defense Gotabaya Rajapaksa embezzling over ...
Jan 8, 2009 · Thu 8 Jan 2009 05.37 EST. A motorcycle gunman has shot and killed the editor of a Sri Lankan newspaper that has been highly critical of the country's government. Lasantha Wickramatunga, whose ...
Jan 17, 2009 · 2009 8 January, Lasantha Wickramatunga is murdered. On 14 January, Ministry of Defence declares Jaffna peninsula is free from Tamil Tiger control. On 14 January, Ministry of Defence declares ...
Jan 8, 2009 · Top Sri Lankan editor shot dead. The editor of a Sri Lankan newspaper often critical of the government has been shot dead in Colombo. Police say Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickramatunga was shot by unidentified gunmen on motorcycles as he drove to work in the city suburbs. He died from head wounds after nearly three hours of surgery, doctors ...
Sep 27, 2016 · Lasantha Wickrematunge's killing came at a time of intense restrictions on the media in Sri Lanka. The Sunday Leader had accused the government and the military of rights abuses during their fight ...
