World Media Organizations To Bring Attention To Prageeth Eknilagoda

According to a battery of PR-driven wire stories rolling out today, something called the Alliance of Media Organizations will stage a protest tomorrow to commemorate the 200th day since the disappearance of Sri Lankan cartoonist Prageeth Eknaligoda. Eknaligoda went missing on January 24th, two days before the presidential elections, likely for work he was doing for the Lanka-e-News organization. The family -- he has a wife and two sons -- has been routinely frustrated in trying to get the authorities to take the missing man's case seriously. At first they were told there was no manpower because of post-election security needs, than they were paid what seemed like polite lip service in terms of actually digging into what happened, and now they seem to be getting no support at all in part because the case is older now. That many believe the authorities that need to investigate the case are politically aligned with those that committed the deed certainly complicates matters, but makes it no less heartbreaking for the folks that just want to know what happened to their husband and father.

Other news organizations have pledged their support, and I will post something here at CR tomorrow as a reminder of the 200-day anniversary. I encourage other comics-related blog and sites to do something similar: he was in the informal worldwide fraternity of cartoonist and comics people, and he was likely murdered, and the family deserves so much better than how they've been treated.
 
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