Security tightened around Lasantha’s grave

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Police have provided security to the cemetery in which the former Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge is buried. Wickrematunge’s body is to be exhumed on September 27, following a Court Order to conduct a second post-mortem examination. He was assassinated in January 2009. Pix by Pradeep Pathirana

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Security tightened around Lasantha’s grave

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