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The entire Muslim population was expelled from Jaffna. According to a 1981 census (the last official count), the total Muslim population in Jaffna was 14,844. In total, over 14,400 Muslim families, roughly 72,000 people, were forcibly evicted from LTTE-controlled areas of the Northern Province. [16]
Newspaper Language Frequency Publisher/Parent Company Established Circulation Notes Aloka Udapadi: Sinhala: Weekly: Associated Newspapers of Ceylon: Buddhist magazine Budhusarana: Sinhala: Monthly: Associated Newspapers of Ceylon: Buddhist magazine C3 Magazine: English: Bimonthly: C3 Magazine: 2007: Computers, gadgets and technology Daily FT ...
A grenade was thrown into the newspaper's office in Jaffna on 24 March 2009 causing extensive damage and injuring a security guard. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] [ 45 ] Same year, on 25 June, thousands of copies of the Uthayan , Thinakkural and Valampuri were burnt in the street by armed men, after the papers had refused to print a statement against the LTTE.
Thinakkural is a Tamil newspaper published in Sri Lanka. It was founded by Pon Rajagobal, former editor of Virakesari in 1997. [1] There have reported number of attempts to force the paper to stop its distribution in recent times. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Some families have returned and the re-opened Osmania College, a public school in Jaffna which was once a prominent educational institution for the city's Muslim community. [42] [43] According to a Jaffna Muslim source, there is a floating population of about 2,000 Muslims in Jaffna. Around 1,500 are Jaffna Muslims, while the rest are Muslims ...
The first issues were produced in 1959, published by K. C. Thangaraja, a businessman from Jaffna, who was the Chairman of the Eastern Paper Mills Corporation in Valaichenai. The office and presses of Eelanadu were burnt in 1981 along with Burning of Jaffna Public Library and Poobalasingam Book depot during the riots.
Namathu Eelanadu is a Tamil language newspaper. It was founded in 2002. [1] It was known for promoting a Tamil nationalist prospective. The paper's office in Jaffna was raided by the Sri Lanka Army on 15 December 2005 and its staff interrogated. [2] Sinnathamby Sivamaharajah was the managing director of the newspaper. He was shot dead on 20 ...
The first newspaper in Jaffna, Uthayatharakai (Morning Star) was published in 1841 by C.W. Thamotharampillai [44] By the 1940s, daily newspapers had already been started Eelakesari and Virakesari in 1930 and Thinakaran in 1932 and journals committed to the growth of modernistic, socially purposive literature Bharati and Marumalarchi in 1946 had ...