Sivaram was abducted by four persons in a white van near Bambalapitiya police station on 28 April 2005 during the Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga era and his dead body was found the following day from Kimbula Ela near parliament.

Born on 11 August 1959 in Batticaloa, he was also a political analyst.

He started his political life with Gandhiyan movement in 1982 and was an active member of PLOTE and DPLF.

Mahason Kalliya claimed responsibility

At the time of his murder, responsibility was claimed by a group called ‘Mahason Kalliya’.

The CID has been able to expose the identity of the group with the aid of Sivaram’s mobile phone.

After killing him, the group had kept his mobile phone with them for nearly one month in order to know the persons with whom he had had connections, and taken the phone to all the places they had gone.

Sivaram’s abduction and killing had been done with the coordination of a military intelligence unit, by former members of an armed guerilla group opposed to the LTTE.

They were the same persons, who had made an attempt in 1988 to topple the Maldivian government, and one of them, named Peter, is to be arrested for questioning.

Request to IGP

The action committee for media freedom has asked the IGP about the progress of investigations into the murders and abductions of journalists.

Its national organizer Freddie Gamage, who is presently in Geneva to lodge a complaint, alleges the government has failed to fulfill its promise to ensure justice over these incidents.