Sri Lankan court allows exhumation of slain editor's remains
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}FILE- In this Jan. 28, 2014 file photo, a protestor holds a portrait of Lasantha Wickrematunge, a journalist who was killed, during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka. A Sri Lankan court on Thursday gave permission to police to exhume the remains of the newspaper editor killed seven years ago for a fresh investigation. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File) (The Associated Press)
A Sri Lankan court has given permission to police to exhume the remains of a newspaper editor killed seven years ago for a fresh investigation.
Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor of the Sunday Leader newspaper, was killed while driving to work in January 2009. He was an investigative journalist who wrote about government corruption and a sharp critic of the then government's conduct of a civil war with the ethnic Tamil rebels.
In a pre-written editorial published posthumously, Wickrematunge had said it will be the government that would kill him.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Privately owned Maharaja Television reported Thursday that police had asked court's permission to have the remains examined by a new medical team because the two doctors who operated on Wickrematunge and did an autopsy had given contradictory reports.