{"id":1243,"date":"2011-08-02T15:18:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T14:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialism.in\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2011-08-02T15:18:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T14:18:07","slug":"for-generals-and-the-army-the-war-may-be-over-but-not-for-the-upright-political-campaigners-activists-especially-the-tamils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"For Generals and the Army the War may be over, but not for the upright political campaigners & activists, especially the Tamils"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cde. Siritunga Jayasurya at the protest<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nDear Comrades
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\nA Joint Picket (Protest) was held in Colombo on 2nd August to Protest the\u00a0 brutal\u00a0 assault of\u00a0Gnana Sundaram Kuganadan News Editor of Uthayan Paper Published from Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
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\nGnana Sundaram, who is sixty years old, senior and respected Journalist of Sri Lanka is known for his fearless expos\u00e9’s of the Sinhala Buddhist majoritarian communalism and has been a forthright critique of Mahinda’s regime. Uthayan in which Gnana Sundaram\u00a0 is the News editor has been attacked umpteen times by the hired thugs of the ruling regime over the years.(http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uthayan please read for details about the attacks on Uthayan)
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On the 29th of July when Gnana Sundaram was returning home after work, Douglas Devananda’s armed supporters and the Army thugs (in Civilian garb) attacked Gnana with lethal weapons causing grievous injuries, he is still fighting for life in he Jafna hospital, his condition is reported as critical. I had met Gnana the previous day while I was touring Jafna, he had mentioned of the threatsthat he was receiving from the \u201cunknown\u201d people on a daily basis.
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\nThis attack on Gnana Sundaram took place soon after the local government elections\u00a0 in\u00a0 which United Peoples Alliance (PA) was badly defeated and overwhelmingly rejected by the Tamils in the north of Sri Lanka. Ealam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) of Douglas Devananda was the main campaigner for the ruling\u00a0 Mahinda Rajapaksa’s murderous\u00a0 regime\u00a0 and was hoping to be the chief of the north of Sri Lanka after the elections in the North,and this result seems to be a personal defeat for his misplaced ambitions.\u00a0 Mahinda’s regime is totally\u00a0 silent on these continued\u00a0\u00a0 attacks and killings of Journalists.
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\nThe present regime of Sri Lanka ruled by Mahinda and his clique wants to pretend that they are democratic by holding routine elections , but their undemocratic and dictatorial intentions are very evident, they can not stomach the fact that the Tamil people have totally rejected them and their stooges in the recently held local government elections.\u00a0
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\nThe USP and all those who respect media & press freedom condemn this attack on Uthayan’s news editor Gnana Sundaram. we condemn Mahinda’s dictatorship and hooliganism of his cronies. We demand the Government of Sri Lanka to meet the democratic national aspirations of Tamils in the Nortn and the East.
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\nSiritunga Jayasurya
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\nGeneral Secretary, United Socialist Party (CWI-Sri Lanka)<\/p>\n

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Dear Comrades \u00a0 A Joint Picket (Protest) was held in Colombo on 2nd August to Protest the\u00a0 brutal\u00a0 assault of\u00a0Gnana Sundaram Kuganadan News Editor of Uthayan Paper Published from Jaffna, Sri Lanka. \u00a0 Gnana Sundaram, who is sixty years old, senior and respected Journalist of Sri Lanka is known for his fearless expos\u00e9’s of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialism.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}