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...Neelan was actively lobbying for parliamentary support for President Kumaratunga's peace plan which he helped draft...
Considered an expert on constitutional law, Neelan was scheduled to teach a law school course on Ethnicity, Constitutionalism and Human Rights and a seminar on Federalism, Diversity and Group Rights this fall. Neelan, who was a law school alum, also returned to Harvard as a Smith Visiting Fellow and a Lecturer on Law between...
...Neelan was killed when a suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body leapt from a motorcycle onto Neelan's car in a busy intersection, according to the Daily News in Colombo. Police are still looking for the motorcycle driver...
...Neelan died immediately, and two security personnel in the car were also seriously injured...
Police officials told the Daily News that they had on several occasions warned Neelan to change his daily route from home to office and back. They said Neelan was considered a potential target of another Tamil faction, the radical Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam, which is suspected in the killing. No one has officially claimed responsibility for the death...