{"id":6903,"date":"2019-07-24T11:57:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T11:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6903"},"modified":"2019-07-24T11:57:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T11:57:46","slug":"germany-charges-suspect-over-2005-killing-of-sri-lanka-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/germany-charges-suspect-over-2005-killing-of-sri-lanka-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany charges suspect over 2005 killing of Sri Lanka FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">German prosecutors have charged a suspected member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as an accessory to murder in the 2005 assassination of Sri Lanka&#8217;s foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">German Federal prosecutors said Wednesday that they filed the indictment against the suspect in a Stuttgart court earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The 40-year-old, who was arrested in January and identified only as Navanithan G. in line with German privacy rules, is also charged with membership of a foreign terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Prosecutors say that the suspect belonged to the Tamil Tigers&#8217; intelligence unit from 2002 to 2009 and provided information that was used to carry out the killing of Sri Lankan Foreign Minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The suspect is said to have also helped leading figures in the Tamil Tigers flee Sri Lanka in the final phase of the country&#8217;s civil war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German prosecutors have charged a suspected member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6904,"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-6903","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\/6903","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=6903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}