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The Hindu : News / International : Interim report on attack on journalist


Barely three days after Sri Lanka's top cop, Inspector General N.K.Ilangakoon, was asked to investigate the attack on a senior journalist of a Tamil newspaper based in Jaffna, he submitted an interim report on the incident.

Gnanasundaram Kuhanathan (59), the news editor of Uthayan was beaten by unidentified men with iron bars and left for dead near his home, on Friday. “He submitted the report to the President today,” Bandula Jayasekara, Presidential Spokesman told The Hindu.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa ordered the country's top police official to investigate the incident. Though there have been similar investigations in the past, this is the first time that report on an attack was being submitted in such a short time.
 
The Hindu : News / International : Sri Lankan journalist critical after murderous attack


A senior journalist of a Tamil newspaper based in Jaffna, who was attacked on Friday evening, continues to be in a critical condition.

Gnanasundaram Kuhanathan (59), the news editor of Uthayan, was beaten up by unidentified men with iron bars and left for dead near his home. This was the second such attack on a Uthayan journalist in the past two months. A reporter from the paper S. Kavitharan was attacked on May 28. Uthayan supports the TNA, which openly supported the LTTE.

“There have been four murders of journalists in Sri Lanka since 2008 in which a link with the victim's work was clearly established, and a well-known cartoonist Prageeth Eknaligoda has been missing since January 2010,” said Reporters Without Borders, in a statement.

The Tamil United Liberation Front strongly condemned the attack. “This is not the first time that Mr. Kuganathan had faced this ordeal. On an earlier occasion too, an armed group broke into his office and demanded to know his whereabouts,” said V. Anandasangaree, president, TULF. It is very unfortunate that harassment of journalists, particularly in Jaffna, is on the increase and goes on unabated… The Police should go all out to detect the culprits who seem to be of the same gang repeatedly getting engaged in this type of activities, purely for money and not out of any personal animosity on the journalists,” he added.

According to the Sri Lankan News Agency Lankapuvath, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has order the country's top police official, IG N.K. Ilangakoon to investigate the incident.
 
I thought the war was over.

Still vengeance against those who supported the LTTE?

No problem.

Wipe out the population of North and East Sri Lanka since they were supporters. Do so with support of some the friends out here.

Peace will be eternal!
 
Gnanasundaram Kuhanathan (59), the news editor of Uthayan was beaten by unidentified men with iron bars and left for dead near his home

He is still in the hospital, mate! There are few Tamil armed groups operating in north. Police will find them, let's see.
 
He is still in the hospital, mate! There are few Tamil armed groups operating in north. Police will find them, let's see.

or may be Sinhalese thugs who are trying to silence a tamil journalists for reporting ethnic cleansing happening in Srilanka
 
or may be Sinhalese thugs who are trying to silence a tamil journalists for reporting ethnic cleansing happening in Srilanka

Such a situation is really rare, this has done by a Tamil armed group is clear, what is not clear yet is who's group is that. People in these areas deal with weapons many years, there are some groups still trying to find answers using weapons. Police should bring those who involved in such incidents in to the courts!
 
SRI LANKA The central government charged with attack on Tamil journalist - Asia News

The central government charged with attack on Tamil journalist
by Melani Manel Perera
Protests over beating of Ganasundaram hospitalized in a serious condition, but also an invitation to Rajapaksa government to respect the Tamil victory in recent elections. The harsh accusations of participants.

Colombo (AsiaNews) - A protest rally was held in Colombo yesterday morning to condemn the serious assault of Tamil journalist Ganasundaram Kuhanathan, hospitalized in a serious condition. About 250 people, including journalists, opposition politicians, human rights activists, priests and representatives of social organizations, have urged the authorities to arrest those responsible, and shouted slogans like: "Truth assaulted," "Attacked because you lost elections "," Stop the repression of the media ", with signs written in 3 languages.

Last noon 5 media organizations also protested at the Lipton Circus in Colombo and asked the government to accept the victory of the Tamil party in the north.

On 29 July the journalist Ganasundaram was attacked and beaten on the head with an iron bar in Jaffna, 390 km north of Colombo, as he left the offices of the popular daily Uthayan.

During the protest the left-wing politician Vickremabahu Karunaratne said that the attack shows that the "war is not over, the government of Mahinda Rajapaksa tramples the rights and freedoms of the Tamil people. The government has worked hard and used all its power to win the local elections, but the Tamil people and the media did not bend and have told the truth and defeated this government. Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabhaya [his brother the president and Secretary of Defense] can not tolerate this and attacked a journalist with an iron bar who tells the truth to try to kill him. "

Although the government has condemned the attack, he noted that "they have ensured that there was a massive security clampdown in the Jaffna peninsula, and not even a mouse could get through. So how can a stranger have entered and attacked a journalist? ". "It 'clear and simple – he answered - that the government, with this attack, has tried to turn the victory of the Tamil people into a funeral."

Also Fr. Terrence Fernando, chaplain for Human Rights in the Archdiocese of Colombo, has expressed a firm "condemnation for such an assault on the rights of the Tamil" and against a journalist who tells the truth.

"Kuhanathan - Mano Ganeshan, Tamil opposition politician told AsiaNews - is a truly independent person, and told me that he feared [attacks] because he and the Uthayan newspaper work for truth and for the Tamil people. Jaffna is under total military control. This attack hits all the Tamil, their sentiment and national ideals. " "We urge the government to take full responsibility for the attack."

According to press reports, the Uthayan has undergone more than 10 attacks since 2000; at least 6 collaborators have been killed, including 2 journalists; its printing machines were set on fire. From 1987 to 1990 the newspaper has operated from a bunker to avoid bombing. At that time it was printed on cardboard, because of a lack of paper.

Its owner E. Sarawanapawan is a parliamentary in the opposition party Tamil National Alliance, which won a majority in local elections on the Jaffna peninsula 23 July, defeating the ruling party led by President Rajapaksa.

Ganasiri Koththigoda, active president of the Association of Journalists Working in Sri Lanka, speaking to AsiaNews has also accused the government of "trying to destroy the Tamil people's victory in elections in the north."

President Rajapaksa has ordered an investigation, but the media in the country have noted that there have been frequent attacks and killings of journalists and that such investigations often do not have any results.
 
thread heading is misleading mate! you have to correct that first!

Mano Ganeshan is person who lost in the election, most interesting thing is his brother and some of his party members in current government. Politics!
 
Why am I not surprised? Sinhala chauvinists continuing their attack on innocent Tamil civilians even after they finished LTTE.
 

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