{"id":91682,"date":"2019-07-24T16:19:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T23:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91682"},"modified":"2019-07-24T16:20:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T23:20:04","slug":"germany-charges-ltte-suspect-over-killing-of-kadirgamar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/24\/germany-charges-ltte-suspect-over-killing-of-kadirgamar\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany charges LTTE suspect over killing of Kadirgamar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>An LTTE member, who was arrested in Germany over the assassination of Foreign Minister&nbsp;Lakshman Kadirgamar&nbsp;in 2005, had been charged by the German prosecutors&nbsp;over the murder, foreign news agencies reported today. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>German prosecutors said on&nbsp;Wednesday that they filed the indictment against the 40-year-old G. Navanithan&nbsp;who was arrested in January. The suspect had also been charged with membership of a foreign terrorist organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The indictment had been filed in a Stuttgart court earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prosecutors said that the suspect belonged to the intelligence unit of the LTTE from 2002 to 2009 and provided information that was used to carry&nbsp;out the killing of Sri Lanka\u2019s&nbsp;Foreign Minister Kadirgamar&nbsp;in 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also said that&nbsp;the suspect had helped LTTE stalwarts flee Sri Lanka&nbsp;in the final phase of the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror An LTTE member, who was arrested in Germany over the assassination of Foreign Minister&nbsp;Lakshman Kadirgamar&nbsp;in 2005, had been charged by the German prosecutors&nbsp;over the murder, foreign news agencies reported today. &nbsp; German prosecutors said on&nbsp;Wednesday that they filed the indictment against the 40-year-old G. Navanithan&nbsp;who was arrested in January. The suspect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}