Jaffna journalists remember killings of Sivaram and Rajivarman
30 April 2014
Journalists at the Jaffna Press Club marked the anniversary of the killings of two Tamil journalists, Dharmeratnam Sivaram and Selvarajah Rajivarman, found dead on 29 April 2005 and 2007 respectively, in a remembrance event Tuesday.
D. Sivaram, also known as Taraki, was a renowned journalist and editor of the website TamilNet, who was abducted on 28 April 2005. His body was found the following day inside a High Security Zone in Himbulala, a Sinhala suburb of Colombo.
Selvarajah Rajivarman, a journalist who worked for Namathu Eezhanadu and Thinakkural before joining the Uthayan, was killed two years to the day, by a lone gunman in the middle of Jaffna town.
No one has been held accountable for either crime.
Amidst the on-going intimidation and targeting of media workers, the remembrance event by the Jaffna based journalist network, was held in private.
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30 April 2014
Journalists at the Jaffna Press Club marked the anniversary of the killings of two Tamil journalists, Dharmeratnam Sivaram and Selvarajah Rajivarman, found dead on 29 April 2005 and 2007 respectively, in a remembrance event Tuesday.
D. Sivaram, also known as Taraki, was a renowned journalist and editor of the website TamilNet, who was abducted on 28 April 2005. His body was found the following day inside a High Security Zone in Himbulala, a Sinhala suburb of Colombo.
Selvarajah Rajivarman, a journalist who worked for Namathu Eezhanadu and Thinakkural before joining the Uthayan, was killed two years to the day, by a lone gunman in the middle of Jaffna town.
No one has been held accountable for either crime.
Amidst the on-going intimidation and targeting of media workers, the remembrance event by the Jaffna based journalist network, was held in private.
