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The Jaffna Press Club held a memorial service over the weekend, remembering the lives of two Tamil journalists - Mylvaganam Nimalarajan and Mr Sachithananthan.
The event was held on the date marking the 14th death anniversary of Nimalarajan, who was a senior journalist having contributed to the BBC Tamil and Sinhala services, the Tamil daily Virakesari and Sinhala weekly Ravaya. The Committee to Protect Journalists stated he was gunned down in his home due to his coverage of the political violence before and during the 2000 parliamentary elections. Members of the government aligned paramilitary group the EPDP, are suspected of carrying out the killing.
Also remembered was veteran Tamil journalist Mr Sachithananthan, who passed away earlier this month, having suffered a heart attack.
Mr Sachithananthan, who had worked for the Eela-Naadu and Thinakkural, was a veteran journalist who had been severely injured in 1981, when Sinhala mobs attacked the Eela-Naadu office and Jaffna Public Library in 1981.
See more on Sachithananthan from TamilNet here.
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