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Uthayan staff fled from their Jaffna offices, taking printing machine, a generator and newsprint on a truck. [4] They set up a temporary office in Sarasalai, Thenmarachchi from where they published the paper until April 1996. [4] Then the paper returned to Jaffna after the military had recaptured most of the peninsula including Jaffna city. [4]
Vithyatharan was born in Jaffna and was student of Jaffna Hindu College and studied law in Colombo but had to discontinue it after the 1983 Black July riots and returned to Jaffna. He took up journalism and has been the working in the Uthayan in 1985 since its inception. Uthayan has been attacked several times and its staff killed. [8] [9] [10]
Vadivel Nimalarajah is a minority Sri Lankan Tamil proof reader for the newspaper Uthayan in Jaffna. He has been missing after being abducted on November 17, 2007, after working overnight in the Uthayan newspaper office. Uthayan has been specifically targeted for its independent reporting by the Sri Lankan military and the paramilitary group EPDP.
Selvarajah Rajivarnam (1982 – April 29, 2007) was a young minority Sri Lankan Tamil journalist from Jaffna, Sri Lanka.He was shot and killed by unknown assailants as part of the ongoing Sri Lankan civil war close to his place of work.
Mylvaganam Nimalrajan, a journalist for the Virakesari newspaper, was shot dead at his home in Jaffna on 19 October 2000. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] Nimalrajan was one of the first journalists to write about the Chemmani mass graves and he exposed vote-rigging and intimidation by the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP), a government backed paramilitary ...
In the early hours of 25 June 2009 armed men attacked newspaper delivery men and burnt thousands of copies of three Tamil language newspapers (Thinakkural, Uthayan and Valampuri) in Jaffna. [12] [13] [14] The newspapers had refused to print a statement attacking the Tamil Tigers from a shadowy group calling itself the "Tamil Front Protecting ...
Gnanasundaram Kuganathan is the Editor of the Tamil newspaper Uthayan in Jaffna, Sri Lanka.He was attacked by two men on motorbikes with iron rods on 29 July 2011. He has lived inside the newspaper office as Uthayan has come under attack from pro government paramilitary groups.
Labour Party MP Charles Chauvel lighting a candle on Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day 2010 in Wellington, New Zealand Uthayan staff donating blood on Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day 2013 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka