Memorial service to mark Lasantha’s eighth death anniversary tomorrow

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The eighth death anniversary of The Sunday Leader Founder Editor-in-Chief Lasantha Wickrematunge, which falls tomorrow (8), will be marked with a service at his graveside.

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

Assassinated on 8 January 2009, Wickrematunge was one of Sri Lanka’s leading journalists and an outspoken critic of the Rajapaksa 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.

The investigation into Wickrematunge’s murder has yielded no tangible results in the last eight years and his killers still roam free.

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