{"id":2462,"date":"2022-06-13T06:46:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T06:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2022-06-13T08:18:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T08:18:29","slug":"murders-and-disappearances-during-the-past-two-decades-in-sri-lanka-14-years-since-since-the-murduring-of-journalist-lasantha-wickramatunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/2022\/06\/13\/murders-and-disappearances-during-the-past-two-decades-in-sri-lanka-14-years-since-since-the-murduring-of-journalist-lasantha-wickramatunge\/","title":{"rendered":"Murders and disappearances during the past two decades in Sri Lanka. 14 years since the murder of journalist Lasantha Wickramatunge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Murder of an Independent journalist in broad daylight on January 8, 2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On April 4, 2019, CJA filed a civil suit against Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka\u2019s former Secretary of Defence and brother of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, for his alleged involvement in the killing of journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge and the widespread and systematic targeting of journalists perceived to be critical of the Rajapaksa government. Read the civil complaint and our subsequent communication to the United Nations.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Murder of a whistleblower \u2013 4 Murder of an Independent journalist in broad daylight on January 8, 2009 On April 4, 2019, CJA filed a civil suit against Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka\u2019s former Secretary of Defence and brother of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, for his alleged involvement in the killing of journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,31,28],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tharjana","category-mardhanayan","category-minimaruwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}