Western Province (NA): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2019

The Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) arrested Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Colombo Municipal Councilor, KulathissaDeeganage in connection over the unruly behaviour at the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) premises in Dematagoda in Colombo in Western Province, on January 6, reports Daily News. He was remanded till January 11 by Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayarathne CCD officials informed court that a tense situation had prevailed as a result of the Councillors unruly behaviour. The phones had contained footage of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) training, according to the Security Forces (SFs).Further investigations are being carried out by the Puliyankulam Police, Vavuniya Police and Military intelligence units. Read less...

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on January 17 informed the Mount Lavinia Magistrate Court that the same organized group of suspects had carried out both the murder of senior journalist and Sunday Leadereditor Lasantha Wickrematunge and the abduction and assault of The Nation's former deputy editor Keith Noyahr, reports Colombo Page.When the Lasantha Wickrematunge murder inquiry was taken up on January 17, the Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of the CID's Gang Robbery Unit-Inspector Nishantha Silva making submissions informed the Mount Lavinia Chief Magistrate Mohamed Mihailthat the CID found that the same group of suspects is involved in both crimes. Lasantha Wickrematunge, the founding editor of English weekly, Sunday Leader, was assassinated on January 8, 2009 by four assailants who stopped him on his way to his office on Attidiya-Mount Lavinia road, in a suburb of Sri Lankan capital Colombo.Keith Noyahr, a journalist with The Nation newspaper at the time, abducted by a group of men in a van on the night of the May 22, 2008. Read less...