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Friday, August 3, 2018
Assassinated young journalist remembered 11 years on
01Aug 2018
Sahathevan Nilakshan, the up and coming Tamil journalist who was shot
and killed by suspected Sri Lankan military intelligence personnel on
August 1st, 2007 was remembered today eleven years on by fellow media
workers and his family.
Nilakshan was 22 years old when he was gunned down outside his home in Jaffna.
At a time when the Jaffna district was on lockdown due to
military-imposed curfew, and the city’s streets were heaving with
troops, so-called unidentified gunmen were able to approach Nilakshan’s
home in Kokkuvil, a busy suburb less than 5km away from town.
The perpetrators forced a friend of the journalist to accompany them to
Nilakshan’s home and call him outside, before gunning him down.
Speaking at an event earlier this year, Nilakshan's mother called for the killers of her son to be brought to justice.
My son was innocent,” said his mother Selvarani Sahadevan. "The culprits
who were behind this killing should be punished. Many Tamil journalists
were killed but still there is no justice."
Sahathevan Nilakshan, the up and coming Tamil journalist who was shot
and killed by suspected Sri Lankan military intelligence personnel on
August 1st, 2007 was remembered today eleven years on by fellow media
workers and his family.
Nilakshan was 22 years old when he was gunned down outside his home in Jaffna.
At a time when the Jaffna district was on lockdown due to
military-imposed curfew, and the city’s streets were heaving with
troops, so-called unidentified gunmen were able to approach Nilakshan’s
home in Kokkuvil, a busy suburb less than 5km away from town.
The perpetrators forced a friend of the journalist to accompany them to
Nilakshan’s home and call him outside, before gunning him down.
Speaking at an event earlier this year, Nilakshan's mother called for the killers of her son to be brought to justice.
My son was innocent,” said his mother Selvarani Sahadevan. "The culprits
who were behind this killing should be punished. Many Tamil journalists
were killed but still there is no justice."
