Tamil journalist P. Sathiyamoorthy, who was killed inside the ‘No Fire Zone’ by a Sri Lankan army artillery barrage in February 2009, was remembered in Jaffna on Tuesday.
The remembrance event marking nine years since his killing was attended by veteran journalists and members of the public, with the keynote address given by Dr K. T. Ganesalingam, head of political science at the University of Jaffna.
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