Body of Lasantha Wickrematunge exhumed
September 27, 2016 09:26 am
The body of a Sri Lankan journalist gunned down in the final months of the country’s brutal civil war in 2009 is being exhumed on Tuesday as part of a fresh investigation into his death.
Lasantha Wickrematunge’s grave in Colombo has been under armed guard since the new autopsy was announced earlier in September, two months after a military intelligence official was arrested in connection with the killing of the former editor of the Sunday Leader newspaper.
Wickrematunge was shot dead by gunmen on motorcycles while driving to work in January 2009.
On September 08, the Mount Lavinia Magistrate’s Court ordered the exhumation of the remains of slain journalist following a request made by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) based on certain contradictions which existed between the autopsy report on the murder victim, the report on the surgery performed at the hospital and the government analyst report on the crime scene.
