The Tamil National People's Front (TNPF) commemorated the 17th anniversary of the assassination of Tamil MP Joseph Pararajasingham at their headquarters today.
Pararajasingham, who was a senior Tamil National Alliance (TNA) figure, and the MP for Batticaloa district, was shot and killed by two armed paramilitary men, whilst he was attending Christmas Eve midnight mass in 2005, at the St Mary's church in Batticaloa town. His wife, Sugunam Pararajasingham was seriously wounded in the gunfire.
Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan, alias Pillayan, leader of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP), a government-aligned paramilitary group, was indicted over Pararajasingham's murder in 2017. However, just four years later, the the Attorney General Department told Batticaloa High Court that it would not be proceeding with the case against Pillayan.
