{"id":6766,"date":"2019-07-04T07:30:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T07:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6766"},"modified":"2019-07-04T07:30:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T07:30:06","slug":"stf-members-acquitted-over-trinco-5-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/stf-members-acquitted-over-trinco-5-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"STF members acquitted over Trinco 5 murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Special Task Force (STF) members accused over the murder of five youth in Trincomalee in 2006 were today acquitted in the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Trincomalee Chief Magistrate, M. Hansa acquitted 13 Special Task Force members who were suspected of executing five youth at the Trincomalee beach in 2006.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Fifteen charges were filed against the suspects but they were released due to lack of evidence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Popularly known as the \u2018Trinco 5\u2019 case, the murder of the five youth became a high profile case which was raised by international human rights groups and the UN Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Amnesty International has been campaigning for justice for the Tamil students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The parents of all five boys fled overseas after facing death threats when they pushed for answers over the murders of their children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Dr. Kasippillai Manoharan, the father of one of the students killed, has been leading a campaign seeking justice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Task Force (STF) members accused over the murder of five youth in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6767,"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-6766","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\/6766","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=6766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}