Attack over protesters in Kodikamam
Sri Lankan Army vehicle has knocked down and killed a young Hindu priest on the A9 highway on 14th Novenmber 2004. Tension prevailed near Kodikamam town in Jaffna Sunday morning as military and Police fired tear gas and assaulted civilians protesting against an accident. Hundreds of protesting civilians in the area blocked the highway and set fire to the Sri Lanka army vehicle and two military motorbikes.
 Two journalists who were covering the incident were also assaulted by Police and SLA troopers. The SLA vehicle, bowser carrying water for 53 Brigade camp, was speeding on the road by Ramar temple near Kodikamam town when it hit the priest who was killed at the spot. The priest was identified as Varatharaja Kurukkal Harihara Sarma, 24, of Kalviyankadu near Jaffna. 
Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission representatives and Tamil National Alliance MPs Mr. Selvarajah Gajendran and Mr. Nadarajah Raviraj visited the area as news of the protest spread in Jaffna Sunday. The assaulted reporters were from Eelanatham and Eelanaadu. The journalist Association of Northern Sri Lanka has condemned the attack over the reporters who engaged in collecting the news on the spot. Tamil reporters and journalists have been facing threats and harassments without any change in gathering and publishing their news.
15 November 2004
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Europe which has a total population of 800 million is made up of 45 language based nation states. South Asia which has a total population of one billion, (1000 million) is comprised of four states. Who is preventing and therefore benefiting by limiting new nation-states in South Asia?
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