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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Funeral" data-source="post: 4594456" data-attributes="member: 197261">Sonali Writes to President Rajapakse; Demands International Inquiry <img src="http://unbowedandunafraid.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/art.mahinda.rajapaksa.afp_.gi_.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Lasantha Wickrematunge's wife, Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge,  publicly released a letter that she had addressed to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on April 24, expressing her dismay at the government's attempts to cover up the assassination of her husband, and systematically dismantling the official line that Mr. Wickrematunge was killed by 'forces attempting to discredit the government.' Mrs. Wickrematunge pointed out several coincidences that jointly point to a government cover up of the assassination, including the fact that the state-run ITN television network did not mention Lasantha's murder in its January 8 news bulletins. "Even the news editors of ITN, therefore, appear to have concluded that the government was responsible and sought to hush the matter up," she wrote.Highlighting the threats made on Lasantha's life by President Rajapaksa himself in a telephone conversation, Mrs. Wickrematunge not only implied that President Rajapaksa knew full well who was behind Lasantha's assassination, but went as far as to say "everyone except the police seem to know" who killed the outspoken editor.</blockquote>

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