There were contradictory evidence as to the murder weapon. Some said he was gunned down with a rifle, others pointed out that it was specialized equipment- a form of compressed air stun gun. Perhaps this is mere embellishment. He was, in the highest of probabilities, exterminated by a military led death squad, that's the important part.
I mean let's get to the pith of the matter. He had to be removed from the picture because he was one of the few journos in the South that had balls to talk about war crimes. For instance, I remember reading his columns on the infamous cluster bomb attacks on Tamil civilians back in the day. This is why Gota felt threatened and average Sinhalese hypocrite got butthurt because to them it simply means tarnishing the image of the military, because for some fucking reason our military gods are axiomatically beyond reproach. Meanwhile it'd always been a simple matter of right and wrong.
