CID identifies Dharmaratnam Sivaram’s killers!

Sep 21, 2016

The CID has now received strong leads to identify the killers of Tamil journalist, ‘Tamilnet’ editor Dharmaratnam Sivaram alias Taraki, who was abducted by four persons in a white van near Bambalapitiya police station on 28 April 2005 and whose dead body was found from Kimbula Ela near parliament on the following day, say police headquarters sources.

At the time, responsibility of his murder was claimed by a group called ‘Mahason Kalliya’, and the CID has been able to expose the identity of the group. Sivaram’s mobile phone helped them to make the revelation. After killing him, the group had kept his mobile phone with them for nearly one month in order to know the persons with whom he had had connections. They had taken the phone to all the places they had gone, which has enabled police to identify them.
 
It has been established that this has been done with the coordination of a military intelligence unit. For that, the unit has used former members of an armed guerilla group opposed to the LTTE.  They were the same persons who had made an attempt in 1988 to topple the Maldivian government. A person by the name Peter, who was connected to it, is to be arrested for questioning.
 
Await a detailed report…