Iyathurai Nadesan, his funeral and hartals in the North and East following the slaying.
The papers also editorially condemned the act. However, they chose not to point a
finger at any one.
The Verakesari and Thinakkural of Tuesday carried the news of the killing of
Virakesari's Battiacloa correspondent Iyathurai Nadesan as their main stories. Both
papers also reported that the LTTE while condemning the killing has conferred an
honour on late Nadesan recognising him as a patriot. The Virakesari in a front page
editorial called upon the government to initiate immediate investigations and arrest the
culprits.
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dedicated journalist
[The Sunday Leader]
diminishes me, because
I am involved in
mankind; And therefore
never send to know for
whom the bell tolls; It
tolls for thee"
— John Donne
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj
The death of any
member of the
journalistic fraternity is
distressing. More so
when a scribe is
gunned down in broad
daylight by ‘unknown’
assassins for the ‘crime’
of writing something
that displeases people
with pretensions of
power.
Velupillai Pirapaharan, attended the
opening ceremony of a new building in the
Home for the Elderly, 'Anpucholai,' in
Kilinochchi and awarded prizes of faith to
many older parents of LTTE war heroes,
sources from Vanni said.
Nadesan a ‘Tiger-
scribe’
[The Sunday Leader]
between the mainstream
Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and
the Batticaloa - Amparai
dissident faction led by
Vinayagamoorthy
Muralitharan alias "Col"
Karuna has led to a
situation where lives are
being snuffed out
without restraint.
Pirapaharan, Friday honored the senior journalist, Mr. S.M.
Gopalaratnam (“Gopu”) with an award embossed with the Tiger
emblem, for his “magnificent contributions to Tamil national
consciousness and Tamil people’s national awakening” throughout
his journalistic career for more than 50 years, LTTE sources said.
software giant Infosys, says "compassionate capitalism"
is the only solution to poverty in the country.
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