04-07-2006, 06:04 AM
[size=18]Vigneswaran shot dead in Trincomalee
[TamilNet, April 07, 2006 04:08 GMT]
Mr.Vanniasingham Vigneswaran, President of the Trincomalee District Tamil Peoples' Forum (TDTPF) was shot dead Friday around 9.30 a.m. by an unidentified person when he was about to enter the main branch of the Bank of Ceylon (BoC) located along Inner Harbor Road between the office of the Senior Superintendent of Police and Trincomalee Harbor Police. The assasination the key Tamil activist has taken place when the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) was about to announce the appointment of Mr. Vigneswaran as the national list Parliamentarian, the position last held by Joseph Pararajasingham MP who was slain in Batticaloa on Christmas eve, TNA sources said.The site where the incident took place is High Security Zone, located between two Sri Lanka Army checkpoints, opposite to the Trincomalee Harbour near the SLN Command in Trincomalee.
The TDTPF under the leadership of Mr.Vigneswaran has been spearheading the campaign for the removal of the controversial Buddha statue, which was erected in a land close to the Trincomalee central bus stand last year.
In June 2005, two grenades were lobbed into Mr. Vigneswaran's residence by an unidentified attacker.
[TamilNet, April 07, 2006 04:08 GMT]
Mr.Vanniasingham Vigneswaran, President of the Trincomalee District Tamil Peoples' Forum (TDTPF) was shot dead Friday around 9.30 a.m. by an unidentified person when he was about to enter the main branch of the Bank of Ceylon (BoC) located along Inner Harbor Road between the office of the Senior Superintendent of Police and Trincomalee Harbor Police. The assasination the key Tamil activist has taken place when the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) was about to announce the appointment of Mr. Vigneswaran as the national list Parliamentarian, the position last held by Joseph Pararajasingham MP who was slain in Batticaloa on Christmas eve, TNA sources said.The site where the incident took place is High Security Zone, located between two Sri Lanka Army checkpoints, opposite to the Trincomalee Harbour near the SLN Command in Trincomalee.
The TDTPF under the leadership of Mr.Vigneswaran has been spearheading the campaign for the removal of the controversial Buddha statue, which was erected in a land close to the Trincomalee central bus stand last year.
In June 2005, two grenades were lobbed into Mr. Vigneswaran's residence by an unidentified attacker.
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