
SLA rampages Thinnakural press office in Jaffna
The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) conducted a search operation in the Thinnakural press office in Jaffna that is located at the Junction of KKS Road and Kasthuriyar Road.
The SLA cleared the Thinakural office of the entire staff and conducted a heavy long in the news, administrative and advertisement sections. The search operation was conducted on Friday at about 4:00 pm following a grenade attack at a military checkpoint near Vannai Siva Temple in KKS Road. The journalistic sources express regret that this is just one of military’s many oppressive actions to limit the functioning of free media. It must be noted that on 22 December 2005, Tamil activist and a part-time newspaper distributor for the Thinnakural paper, Krishnan Navaratnam, was shot and killed by paramilitaries group outside of the same press office.
07 January 2006
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