{"id":7902,"date":"2020-01-08T07:02:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T07:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7902"},"modified":"2020-01-08T07:02:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T07:02:53","slug":"hope-for-justice-over-the-murder-of-journalist-lasantha-wickrematunge-seemed-to-be-fading-as-family-and-friends-gathered-at-his-graveside-today-to-commemorate-his-11th-death-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/hope-for-justice-over-the-murder-of-journalist-lasantha-wickrematunge-seemed-to-be-fading-as-family-and-friends-gathered-at-his-graveside-today-to-commemorate-his-11th-death-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope for justice over the murder of journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge seemed to be fading as family and friends gathered at his graveside today to commemorate his 11th death anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Wickrematunge\u2019s brother Lal Wickrematunge and United National Party Parliamentarians were among those who gathered at the Borella cemetery to commemorate his death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Lasantha Wickrematunge was killed while he was on his way to work on 8 January 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Investigations into the murder never drew to a close as the Mahinda Rajapaksa administration was accused of being involved in the murder and was accused of hampering the probe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The former Government led by the United National Party launched fresh investigations into the murder but eventually failed to ensure the process moved forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wickrematunge\u2019s brother Lal Wickrematunge and United National Party Parliamentarians were among those who gathered&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7903,"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-7902","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\/7902","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=7902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}