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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Sunday, May 4, 2014
Uthayan Editor among the RSF 100 Information Heroes
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| M. V. Kaanamylnathan |
M. V. Kaanamylnathan had 50 years’ tough experience in journalism and
had worked for every Tamil-language newspaper in Sri Lanka when he took
the helm of the main Tamil daily Uthayan in 1985, two years after the
civil war flared up. Dozens of members of the paper’s staff were among
the conflict’s 100,000 dead. Bombings, shootings, grenade attacks and
murders were used to try to silence a voice that tried to keep to a
middle course between the central government and the Tamil rebels. Five
years after the official end of the conflict, Kaanamylnathan, who
himself escaped an attack in 2001, and his newspaper are still making
waves. Last year, a series of articles on land seizures by the Sri
Lankan army was followed by a brutal attack on the paper’s offices by
six masked men.
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