Prageeth Eknaligoda Disappearance Part Of A Cycle

Journalism advocates observing Sri Lanka politics over the last four years are asserting that the recent violence against a newspaper editor is part of a continuum of violence against journalists stretching back to 2008. This includes the 2010 pre-election disappearance of cartoonist Prageeth Eknaligoda, whose plight was engaged reluctantly by political authorities -- from the party Eknaligoda did not support -- who claimed post-election security kept them from devoting proper resources to an immediate search. Fifty-nine year old news editor Gnanasundaram Kuhanathan of the Tamil paper Uthayan was beaten by men with iron pipes and left for dead near his home on Friday. A reporter from another paper was attacked in late May.
 
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