Graveside service tomorrow to mark Lasantha’s sixth death anniversary

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At Borella Kanatteat 8 a.m.

The sixth 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 tomorrow.

Family, friends, former colleagues and others, including those from political and diplomatic circles, will gather at Borella Kanatte at 8 a.m. 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 shot as he drove to work and later died of his injuries. The brazen attack was carried out by two gunmen on motorcycles in the middle of morning-rush-hour traffic. Although the Sri Lankan Government called for an investigation into Lasantha’s murder, it has yielded no tangible results thus far and his killers still roam free, six years later.