Southern relatives meet northern journalists
Mar 27, 2016
Due to constant hindrance inflicted to the northern journalists by the security forces the active media freedom committee who is currently touring the Northern Province has organized a special meeting between the northern journalists and the security forces.
123 people including the media minister, deputy media minister, heads of state media, representatives of media organization, electronic, print and a team of web media journalists have started a tour in Jaffna.
Convener of the reconciliation tour which draws the umbrella and the stylus together, Freddie Gamage told BBC they are ready to meet the security chief’s of Jaffna and discuss about the current hindrances caused to the journalists in Jaffna.
A special discussion is scheduled to be held between the journalists in Jaffna and the heads of security forces. The police media spokesperson would also participate. Special attention would be focused about the problems faced by the journalists during the former era, said the convener of the independent active media committee Freddie Gamage.
A space to breath
Journalist Freddie Gamage reminded the statement said by the president recently that there is a major role entrusted to the south to build the required reconciliation and said under this context this tour was organized as a step taken forward the journey towards reconciliation.
He said during the former era amid the bitter experiences faced by the journalists in Jaffna there were no conducive atmosphere for the southern journalists to neither protect nor appear behalf of them.
“Although we appeared behalf of them for a certain extent it was not sufficient enough to protect their lives. While taking the advantage of the little space created to breath, in to account we thought to visit the north” said journalist Freddie Gamage.
Freddie Gamage further said that a monument would be built in the center of the Jaffna town in remembrance of the journalists died in north and the south during the previous regime.
