Kethesh Loganathan shot dead in Colombo
13 Aug 2006 (New Delhi)
Deputy Secretary General of Sri Lanka Government's Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP), Kethesh Loganathan was shot dead by a suspected Tamil Tiger gunman near Vandervet Place in Dehiwela in Colombo late Saturday evening.
He was a former member of Eelam Peoples Revolutionary Liberation Front,EPRLF.
Mr Loganathan received serious gunshot wounds and died on the way to the Kalubowila Hospital
.
Mr. Ketheshwaran Loganathan resigned from the Board of Directors and as Head of the Peace and Conflict Analysis Unit of the Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA), a Colombo-based think-tank, 1st April 2006.
He was a member of the EPRLF during the period 1983-1994, and took part in the India brokered negotiation processes between the Government of Sri Lanka and Tamil militant groups in Thimpu in 1985. The talks eneded in deadlock.
He resigned from EPRLF in 1995.
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