(FMM/IFEX) – The following is an FMM statement: On 26 July 2004, at approximately 8:45 p.m. (local time), journalist Sada Sangaralingam Kamaladasan, of Amarasinha road, in Ariyampathi, Batticaloa, eastern Sri Lanka, was shot in the legs. Two men went to the journalist’s home, asked him to come out and shot him in the legs. The […]
(FMM/IFEX) – The following is an FMM statement:
On 26 July 2004, at approximately 8:45 p.m. (local time), journalist Sada Sangaralingam Kamaladasan, of Amarasinha road, in Ariyampathi, Batticaloa, eastern Sri Lanka, was shot in the legs. Two men went to the journalist’s home, asked him to come out and shot him in the legs. The journalist has been admitted to the Batticaloa hospital.
FMM condemns this dastardly act as an assault on freedom of expression and the right to life. FMM urges those responsible for this act to desist from using violence to silence others’ views and opinions.
Sada Sangaralingam Kamaladasan works as a provincial journalist for the weekly Tamil-language newspaper Thinamurusu. In the last two years, Thinamurusu distributors have been threatened several times.
Thinamurusu is a pro-Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) newspaper. The EPDP opposes the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). EPDP’s leader, Douglas Devananda, is a minister in the current government and has been known to be on the LTTE’s hit list for some time now.
Sunanda Deshapriya
Spokesperson
FMM
