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Five sentenced to death for murderPublished: Tuesday, 30 January, 2007, 08:33 AM Doha Time
Staff Reporter
Five Sri Lankan men were sentenced to death, including one in absentia, as they were found guilty of killing a compatriot in Doha last February.
Four of the accused were nabbed immediately after the murder, while the fifth suspect, considered the mastermind, is believed to have come to Qatar shortly before the murder and left a few days later.
Legal sources said Qatar would ask Colombo to extradite him. The case will be automatically directed to the appeal court.
Qatar authorities believe the murder of Sri Lankan Tamil Manokaran, 25, was a case of ?political assassination? as he was a former member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and later probably a member of its rebel faction.
Manokaran, a native of Eravoor, near Batticolova in Sri
Lanka?s eastern province, succumbed to his wounds seven days after he was attacked at his labour camp on Street 49 in the Industrial Area.
The charge-sheet said the main suspect supplied his accomplices with iron bars and face masks to carry out the crime.
The fifth suspect, who lived in the next room, supplied the group with information about the victim?s movements while the third stood guard outside his room.

?The first, second and fourth accused sneaked into Manokaran?s room and repeatedly hit him on his head with an iron rod,? the chargesheet said.
A police officer said the suspects failed to kill Manokaran outside his accommodation, so they decided to murder him inside his room.
?On the day of the incident, the unidentified suspect was monitoring the stairs to ensure that no one was around, while another one stood in the corridor.

?The others went inside the victim?s room and hit him many times on his head while he was sleeping,? the officer told the prosecution.
?Though two of his roommates woke up after the victim started to scream, they were forced to remain silent as the attackers threatened them,? the witness said.
?The attackers stopped the assault only after they thought that the victim was dead,? he said.

Iron bars, two gloves and two face masks were found in the car of the fourth suspect. The police dog, which sniffed the bars, led the investigating officials to the second suspect.
A Sri Lankan roommate of Manokaran, who was summoned as a witness, said that he saw three men, two of them near the victim?s bed and the third standing near his bed.
I saw a man hitting the victim on his head with an iron bar. They threatened to kill me if I opened my mouth. They told me that they belonged to the Tamil Tigers and I knew they would not hesitate to kill their detractors,? he said.
The witness said that one of attackers shone the beam of a torch in his face to prevent him from seeing them.
Another roommate of the victim corroborated his statement, the police said. The medical report said Manokaran sustained bleeding in the brain and fractures as a result..

exemplary people like Dr kumar rupasinghe and Dr wickremebahu karunaatne are the ones that will take sri lanka far

they are well principled people that will teach ethics and how to be tolerant citizens to those who have been under the cloud of racism for about half a century

Dear Iranian president

EEELamaya

31 Jan 2007 01:03:25 GMT
Sundog:

you guys always try to say Sinhala govt is right and Tamils are wrong

One more thing, nothing new in this 'resolve' it has always been the same resolve of the Sinhala nation for 60 years, wipe out the Tamil nation, they must live in subserviance like the rest of the Sinhala peasants who are held hostage to the corrupt system.