Lasantha’s 11th death anniversary to be marked with graveside service

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The 11th anniversary of the assassination of The Sunday Leader founder and Editor-in-Chief Lasantha Wickrematunge, which falls on 8 January, will be marked with a service at his graveside on Wednesday.

Family, friends, former colleagues and others, including those from political, diplomatic and media circles, will gather at Borella Kanatte at 9 a.m. on Wednesday to mark the anniversary and remember Lasantha.

Assassinated on 8 January 2009, Lasantha was one of Sri Lanka’s leading journalists and an outspoken critic of the Sri Lankan Government. He was attacked as he drove to work and later died of his injuries. The brazen attack was carried out by gunmen on motorcycles in the middle of morning-rush-hour traffic.

Although the Sri Lankan Government has called for an investigation into Lasantha’s murder, it has yielded no tangible results thus far and his killers still roam free, 11 years later.

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