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Leader of the separatist terrorist LTTE Velupillai
Prabhakaran, its Intelligence Chief Pottu Amman and
four others have been indicted before the High Court
of Colombo in connection with the assassination of
former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar.
The former Minister was assassinated at his
residence in Colombo on August 12, 2005. The
Attorney general filed the charges against
Velupillai Prabhakaran, Pottu Amman alias Shiva
Shankar, Charles alias Charles Master, Komadee
Manimekala alias Madee, Muttaiyah Sahadevan and
Isithor Arokyanathan alias Babu for conspiring with
another LTTE member Vinothan to assassinate Minister
Kadirgamar and committing the murder as a result of
a conspiracy.
According to the charges they had conspired at
Kilinochchi and Colombo between January 01 and
August 12, 2005 to carry out this assassination.
The Colombo High Court had earlier convicted the
LTTE leader Prabhakaran, in absentia, to 200 years
in prison for planning the bombing of the Central
Bank in Colombo in 1996 that killed 86 and wounded
more than 1000 people.
The next hearing of the Prabhakaran and other
accused in the Kadirgamar assassination has been
fixed for April 02, 2008.
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