{"id":172364,"date":"2017-01-07T23:37:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T18:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=172364"},"modified":"2017-01-08T12:12:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T06:42:40","slug":"lasanthas-eighth-death-anniversary-to-be-marked-with-graveside-memorial-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lasanthas-eighth-death-anniversary-to-be-marked-with-graveside-memorial-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Lasantha\u2019s Eighth Death Anniversary To Be Marked With Graveside Memorial Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The eighth death anniversary of The Sunday Leader Founder Editor-in-Chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Lasantha+Wickrematunge&amp;x=10&amp;y=1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lasantha Wickrematunge<\/span><\/a>, which falls on 8 January (Sunday), will be marked with a service at his graveside.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_118210\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lasantha_wickramatunga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118210\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-118210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lasantha_wickramatunga-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Lasantha Wickrematunge\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lasantha_wickramatunga-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lasantha_wickramatunga-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-118210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lasantha Wickrematunge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Family, friends, former colleagues and others, including those from political and diplomatic circles, will gather at Borella Kanatte at 9 a.m. to mark the anniversary and remember Lasantha.<\/p>\n<p>Assassinated on 8 January 2009, Lasantha was one of Sri Lanka\u2019s leading journalists and an outspoken critic of the Rajapaksa Government. He was attacked as he drove to work and later died of his injuries. The brazen attack was carried out by gunmen on motorcycles in the middle of morning rush-hour traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into Lasantha\u2019s murder has yielded no tangible results in the last eight years and his killers still roam free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":118210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lasantha\u2019s Eighth Death Anniversary To Be Marked With Graveside Memorial Service - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lasanthas-eighth-death-anniversary-to-be-marked-with-graveside-memorial-service\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lasantha\u2019s Eighth Death Anniversary To Be Marked With Graveside Memorial Service - 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