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P. Devakumar |
P. Devakumar was hack to death May 28th evening in Navanthurei on his way home from Jaffna town. A friend of Devakumar was also killed by in the attack. He was 36 years old and married for one year. He had worked for Sirasa, Shakthi and MTV Television Network for nearly three years. His residence is Vaddukoddai, Jaffna. |
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Dharmeratnam Sivaram |
Taraki Sivaram or Dharmeratnam Sivaram was a popular Tamil journalist. He was kidnapped by four men in a white van on April 28, 2005, in front of the Bambalapitiya police station. His body was found the next day near the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He had beaten and shot in the head.
Sivaram, the well-known and controversial political analyst and a senior editor of Tamil net, he was born on August 11 1959.in Batticaloa Sri Lanka, to a prominent local family with significant land holdings and political connections near the village of Akkaraipattu. He was educated at St: Michael’s College in Batticaloa, and later at Pembroke and Aquinas College in Colombo.He was accepted into the University of Peradeniya in 1982 but soon dropped out due to tensions associated with the first phases of Sri Lanka civil war in 1983.
On September 8,1988 he married Herly Yogaranjini Poopalapillai of Batticaloa. They eventually had three children: Vaishnavi, Vaitheki, and Seralaathan
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Richard de Zoysa |
Richard de Zoysa was a well-known journalist, author, human rights activist and actor, who was abducted and murdered on February 18 1990, de Zoysa was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was of mixed ethnicity, his father a majority Sinhalese and mother a prominent medical surgeon from the minority Sri Lankan Tamil community.
In 1983, de Zoysa starred in Lester James Peries’s film Yuganthaya alongside Gamini Fonseka. The role of socialist Malin Kabalana in the movie closely mirrored de Zoysa's own beliefs.
At the time of his abduction and murder, de Zoysa was the head of the Colombo office of the International Press Service He lived in the in the Welikadawatte housing estate with his mother, Manoranee Saravanamuttu and associate A. V. Karunaratne. In the early morning of February 18, 1990, an armed group broke into their home, and forcibly removed de Zoysa and drove off without explanation.
Saravanamuttu then hastily travelled to the Welikada police station and lodged a complaint. The following day, de Zoysa's lifeless body was found in the sea at Moratuwa, some 12 miles south of Colombo. He had been shot in the head and the throat, and his jaw had been broken. His body was identified by his friend Taraki Sivaram,who suffered a similar fate in 2006.
At the inquest the following day, Dr. Saravanamuttu stated that she could identify two of the abductors. Three months later, she saw one of the abductors on television. He was a high-ranking police officer. She informed her lawyer who brought it to the notice of both the Magistrate conducting the inquiry into the incident and the police.
However, the suspect was not arrested and the lead was ignored. Both Dr. Saravanamuttu and her lawyer, Batty Weerakoon, subsequently received death threats. Police officers assigned to guard Batty Weerakoon have also received similar threats. Dr. Saravanamuttu later became an activist for missing people and passed away in 2004..
In 2005, Assistant Superintendent of Police Lal Priyantha Darmasiri Ranchagoda, Officer in Charge Bodeniya Gamlath Gedara Devasurendra and Sergeant Mahawedikkarage Sarathchandra were indicted for de Zoysa's murder. They were acquitted of all charges on November 9, 2005 by Colombo High Court Judge Rohini Perera; she stated that the evidence presented by the prosecution was "contradictory and not credible".
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A. Nadesan |
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Assassinated Journalist
