| Tamil Parlimentarian's (Legislators) condemn Sri Lankan State sponsored violance against Journalists |
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"..The Tamil national Alliance strongly condemns Mr. Gananathan, the President of Tamil News and Information centre, being shot dead on the next day an indirect threat to his life was issued in the Sri Lanka National Radio on 31.02.2007 and the unlawful intrusion into the independent news media institution Tamil News and Information Centre on 09.02.2007 by Sri Lanka Army Intelligence personnel and their attempt to seize at gun point information and photographs of Media coordinator Mr. Barathi and International Media coordinator Mr. K. Kadeepan. .."
Full Text of the communique issued: The Tamil national Alliance strongly condemns Mr. Gananathan, the President of Tamil News and Information centre, being shot dead on the next day an indirect threat to his life was issued in the Sri Lanka National Radio on 31.02.2007 and the unlawful intrusion into the independent news media institution Tamil News and Information Centre on 09.02.2007 by Sri Lanka Army Intelligence personnel and their attempt to seize at gun point information and photographs of Media coordinator Mr. Barathi and International Media coordinator Mr. K. Kadeepan. It also condemns the SLA troopers breaking the glass of the framed photographs and appropriating the photographs. Tamil News and Information Centre is a lawfully registered institution. It is learnt that this institution had to face several pressures because it had particularly informed the people in the South of the current situation in the Jaffna peninsula. We consider these as actions violating the personal rights of the persons concerned, the Sinhalese people's right to know the truth and the right of the media to inform people of the truth. This act appears as a continuation of the violence perpetrated against the media to crush its activities, according to a pre-planned agenda. A National Radio airing indirect warning as a precursor to such a violence leads to various suspicions. We believe only an impartial investigation at international level can expose the perpetrators of these violations of human rights to the world. The Tamil National Alliance requests International Human Rights Organizations and News Media to exert urgent pressure on the Sri Lanka government to safeguard the lives of the rest of Tamil media persons of the Tamil News and Information Centre and protect their right to free expression. Signed by
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