Colombo Page reports, Lasantha Wickramathunga, of Sunday Leader was shot in January 2009 in broad daylight in Colombo, Sri Lankan when he was on his way to his Newspaper office.He wrote of the dirty tricks of government and the ruthless murder group Tamil Tigers who held the Tamils at gun point and shouted to the whole world it was fighting for the ''freedom of Tamils''. Before his death he wrote accusing President Mahinda Rajapaksa of his murder.The nomination of Lasantha Wickramathunga was unanimously approved by the five-member IPI World Press Freedom Hero jury, the IPI said. He will be one of 60 World Press Freedom Heroes honoured in a ceremony to commemorate IPI's 60th year of defending press freedom worldwide, at the IPI World Congress in Vienna and Bratislava, from 11-14 September 2010. The United Nations cultural and education agency UNESCO posthumously awarded the World Press Freedom Prize 2009 to Wickramathunga in April 2009==========================================================================================================================================
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