(July 31, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Tamil United Liberation Front strongly condemns the attempt to murder the news editor of the Tamil National Daily Uthayan Mr. G. Kuganathan on Friday night. This is not the first time that Mr. Kuganathan had faced this ordeal. On an earlier occasion too an armed group broke into his office and demanded to know his whereabouts. Having failed to track him, killed two other innocent employees on the spot and quenched their thirst with their blood
It is very unfortunate that harassment of Journalist, particularly in Jaffna, is on the increase and go on unabated. Further incidents of this nature can be avoided only if the people co-operate in detecting the real offenders. This type of brutality should be stopped forthwith and the Police should go all out to detect the culprits who seem to be of the same gang repeatedly getting engaged in this type of activities, purely for money and not out of any personal animosity on the Journalists.
I also appeal to everybody not to encourage this type of activity and to help to eradicate it for which the co-operation of everybody is very necessary.
We pray for the early recovery of Mr. Kuganathan.
by V. Anandasangaree
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