IPI Renews Call on Government to Investigate Murder of Lasantha Wickrematunge

On the 11th death anniversary of journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge yesterday, the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, renewed its call on the Government of Sri Lanka to investigate the former Sunday Leader editor’s murder, and bring those responsible to justice. Lasantha Wickrematunge, the founding editor of English weekly Sunday Leader, was assassinated on 8 January 2009 by four assailants riding on motorcycles who stopped him on his way to his office on Attidiya-Mt. Lavinia road, in a suburb of Sri Lankan capital Colombo.