NewsIt was some three hours before dawn when the circulation manager of a Jaffna-based Tamil newspaper began to panic. Mr. Rajendran lay wounded until he was found at the break of dawn by passers -by and rushed to hospital. A coincidence was the presence in Jaffna that day of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Editor Vithyatharan told the Sunday Times, “My newspaper has been pursuing a Tamil nationalist line. With the military defeat of Tiger guerrillas in May 2009, no one expected armed gangs to operate brazenly in the peninsula.

Source: Sunday Times June 03, 2018 12:56 UTC