{"id":2265,"date":"2018-01-02T19:43:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T19:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2018-01-02T19:43:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T19:43:34","slug":"justice-sought-for-five-youth-killed-in-trinco-12-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/justice-sought-for-five-youth-killed-in-trinco-12-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice sought for five youth killed in Trinco 12 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Justice has been sought for five Tamil youth killed in Trincomalee 12 years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Amnesty International said in a twitter post that it was pushing for justice for the victims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The human rights group said that the security forces had been accused of being involved in the killing and the killers have not yet been prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The five Tamil students were allegedly summarily executed by the Special Task Force, whilst they spent an afternoon on the beach in Trincomalee on 2nd January 2006.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The case \u2013 known as the \u2018Trinco 5\u2032 \u2013 remains one of the highest profile killings in Sri Lanka to receive international attention, listed in 2014 by the then UN High Commissioner for Human Rights\u2019 report on Sri Lanka as one of four \u2018emblematic cases\u2019 of the Government\u2019s failure to ensure accountability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The five slain students, who were all 20-years-old when killed, are Manoharan Ragihar, Yogarajah Hemachchandra, Logitharajah Rohan, Thangathurai Sivanantha and Shanmugarajah Gajendran.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2266\" src=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/Trinco1-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/Trinco1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/Trinco1-74x55.jpg 74w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/Trinco1-111x83.jpg 111w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/Trinco1-215x161.jpg 215w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/Trinco1.jpg 723w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice has been sought for five Tamil youth killed in Trincomalee 12 years ago.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}