Sri Lankan Cartoonist/Journalist Still Missing; Investigation, Rumors Continue

According to various reports coming out of the region, the Sri Lankan cartoonist and journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda is still missing with no clue as to his whereabouts. Eknaligoda did not come home on January 24, and no one has heard from him since. This article indicates that the police are continuing their investigation, notes that foreign embassies have been alerted with the hope they might pressure the government and relates a potentially chilling anecdote of Eknaligoda being led somewhere on the date in question. Eknaligoda had been kidnapped for a few hours in August 2009, but nothing about the pattern as this situation has developed indicates the same kind of situation. The wider news story is that the missing cartoonist and journalist may be part of a sustained anti-press move by the recently re-elected Sri Lankan government -- Eknaligoda went missing either on or right up against election eve, and had written negative opinion pieces about the eventual incumbent winner.
 
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