Slain Tamil journalist Dharmeratnam Sivaram was remembered in Batticaloa, Jaffna and Vavuniya today to mark 19 years since his abduction and murder.
Sivaram, popularly known under his nom-de-plume Taraki, was abducted in front of Bambalipitiya police station in Colombo on April 28 2005 and was found dead several hours later in a high security zone in Sri Lanka’s capital, which at the time had a heavy police and military presence due to the ongoing conflict. His killers, highly suspected to be linked to the government of then-president Chandrika Kumaratunga, were never caught.