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Nadesan, a veteran Tamil journalist with the national Tamil-language Nadesan, who had worked at Virakesari<\/em> for 20 years, was on Nadesan was an award-winning journalist who used the pen name Nellai Violence erupted in Sri Lanka\u2019s eastern region in the weeks before Nadesan had been harassed and threatened before his death because Nadesan, a veteran Tamil journalist with the national Tamil-languagedaily\u00a0Virakesari was shot by unidentified assailants in Batticaloa,a town on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka about 135 miles (216 kilometres)from the capital, Colombo, according to international news reportsand local journalists. Nadesan, who had worked at Virakesari for 20 years, was onhis way to work when he was ambushed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,31,28],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tharjana","category-mardhanayan","category-minimaruwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pannamu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
daily\u00a0Virakesari<\/em> was shot by unidentified assailants in Batticaloa,
a town on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka about 135 miles (216 kilometres)
from the capital, Colombo, according to international news reports
and local journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
his way to work when he was ambushed near a Hindu temple. The assailants
escaped, and no group claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
G. Nadesan. He also reported for the International Broadcast Group,
a Tamil-language radio station that broadcasts from London. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
the murder after the main Tamil rebel group, the Liberation Tigers
of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), launched a military offensive against a breakaway
faction headed by a soldier known as Colonel Karuna. Local journalists
said that Nadesan was sympathetic to the LTTE. The LTTE accused the
Sri Lankan army and members of the breakaway faction of Nadesan\u2019s
murder, according to the pro-LTTE Internet news site Tamil.net<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
he had criticized the government and security forces, according to
CPJ research. On June 17, 2001, a Sri Lankan army officer summoned
Nadesan for interrogation and threatened the journalist with arrest
unless he ceased reporting about the army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"