{"id":41199,"date":"2012-05-13T09:01:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T09:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=41199"},"modified":"2012-05-13T09:01:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T09:01:24","slug":"montrealer-reportedly-murdered-and-mutilated-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/montrealer-reportedly-murdered-and-mutilated-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Montrealer Reportedly Murdered And Mutilated In Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0BY\u00a0GIUSEPPE VALIANTE ,QMI AGENCY\/Toronto Sun &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MONTREAL &#8211; A Montrealer of Tamil origin was reportedly murdered in northern Sri Lanka in early May after attempting to recover property lost during the war, QMI Agency has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The family of Andrew Mahendrarajah Antonipillai, 53, learned of his death on May 3, his brother-in-law told QMI Agency on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>However, Benjo Ponniah could not confirm media reports his brother-in-law was found with his throat slit and his genitals mutilated in the northern Sri Lankan town of Kilinochchi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/montrealer-reportedly-murdered-and-mutilated-in-sri-lanka\/staticmap\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41200\" title=\"staticmap\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/staticmap.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>Kilinochchi was the headquarters for the Tamil Tigers, a separatist group that fought for independence from the Sri Lankan government for 26 years. The civil war ended in 2009 when government forces declared victory over the Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>Ponniah, who is a reverend living in the Ottawa area, said Antonipillai was in Sri Lanka with family to reclaim property. He said he is waiting for Antonipillai&#8217;s brothers to return to Canada from Sri Lanka to give him a more accurate picture of the events surrounding his brother-in-law&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Ponniah said he didn&#8217;t know if the media reports were true and didn&#8217;t want to talk about the claim that Antonipillai&#8217;s body was mutilated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If that is the way that it happened then it&#8217;s not acceptable,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What we are focusing on right now is getting his body back to Canada for the funeral.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Bruno Villeneuve, spokesperson for the department of Foreign Affairs, told QMI Agency on Saturday that a Canadian citizen &#8220;is believed to have been murdered in Sri Lanka.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the Canadian citizen,&#8221; he said. &#8220;(Foreign Affairs) is providing consular services to assist the family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ponniah said Antonipillai&#8217;s body is expected in Canada on Sunday. Funeral services are scheduled to begin Friday in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Ponniah said his brother-in-law designed furniture in Montreal and was &#8220;very well-known&#8221; in the city&#8217;s Tamil community.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC reported on Friday that Canada&#8217;s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka said Antonipillai was murdered by men outside of Kilinochchi. The BBC report added the commissioner formally asked the Sri Lankan government for a full investigation into Antonipillai&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":41200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-from-foreign-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Montrealer Reportedly Murdered And Mutilated In Sri Lanka - 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\/montrealer-reportedly-murdered-and-mutilated-in-sri-lanka\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Montrealer Reportedly Murdered And Mutilated In Sri Lanka - 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