Assault on Senior Journalist in Ampara District
2011.01.06- NfR reports with indignation the assault on Mr. P.M.M.A.Cader (53) , a senior multi-lingual journalist working in the Ampara District in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. He is the Provincial Correspondent for Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited and also works for some other Tamil language media as well. Following this attack he is under treatment at the Maruthamunai Hospital in Kalmunai, for dizziness and headache.
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Director education in Jaffna shot dead for speaking out
2010.12.28-NfR is shocked to learn that the Deputy Director of Education of the Valikamam zone of the Jaffna District who refused to direct the students of the schools in his zone to recite the National Anthem in Sinhala only, was shot dead in Jaffna on the same day when the controversial government sponsored Tsunami Commemoration Day Ceremony was held in Jaffna. He was shot dead at point blank range on 26.10.2010 by unknown persons who had arrived at his residence in a van that evening.
