Warehouse belonging to the Jaffna daily Uthayan burnt down
The warehouse of the Uthayan daily newspaper published from Jaffna was burnt down by four men arriving on motorbikes at the warehouse at 10.30 pm on 18 August. The guard at the warehouse was tied up and blind folded while the arson was carried out.
Three days earlier on 15 August, a delivery agent, Sathasivam Baskaran (44) of the same newspaper was shot dead at Puthur junction in Jaffna while he was out working during the two hour lifting of the week long curfew. The press office of the same daily was attacked on 2 May when masked gunmen sprayed bullets at the staff and destroyed equipment. Marketing manager, Suresh (35) and another employee Ranjith (24) were killed. Two more staff, Uthayakumar and Thayaharan were seriously injured. During this attack the gunmen were looking for the editorial staff to shoot and failed to find them. Jaffna is “guarded” by 40,000 military personnel and 10,000 police and to date the gunmen has not been apprehended. Most observers suspect the Sri Lankan military’s hand in all of the above attacks.
20 August 2006
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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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