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1. Wimal Surendra, Island, Journalist (1981). Shot dead.
2. K Navaratnam, Eelanadu, Journalist (1981). Shot dead.
3. Sathasivam Sivashanmugamoorthy (Sundaram), Island, Journalist (1982). Shot dead.
4.Thevis Guruge, Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, Director General (1989). Shot dead.
5. Premakeerthi de Alwis, Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, Journalist and Lyricist (1989). Shot dead.
6. Sagarika Gomez, Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, Journalist, Singer and Actress (1989). Kidnapped and murdered.
7. Rajinee Thiranagama, Writer (1989). Shot dead.
8. Richard de Zoysa, Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, Journalist (1990 – February – 18). ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ His murder caused widespread outrage inside the country, and is widely believed to have been carried out by a death squad linked to elements within the government.
9. Rohana Kumara, Satana, Editor (1999 – September – 07). Kumara, chief editor of the pro-opposition Sinhala-language newspaper Satana, was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen at around 10 p.m. as he travelled in a taxi to his home in the Colombo suburb of Mirihana. The gunmen reportedly fled the scene in a silver Toyota 300 car. Kumara had received a phone call earlier that night notifying him that a group of men had entered his home and had threatened to harm his wife if she did not reveal her husband’s whereabouts.
10. Atputharajah Nadarajah, Thinamurusu, Editor, (1999 – November – 02). Unidentified gunmen shot and killed Nadarajah, editor of the Tamil daily Thinamurusu, on the streets of Colombo. Gunmen surrounded Nadarajah’s van on his way to work. His driver was also killed in the attack, and two passers-by were injured.
11. Anura Priyantha, Independent Television Network, Technician (1999 – December – 18). Indika Pathinivasan, a camera assistant for Sri Lanka’s privately owned Maharaja Television Network, and Anura Priyantha, a camera assistant for the state-owned Independent Television Network, were fatally wounded by shrapnel from a suicide bomb aimed at President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga at an election rally in Colombo. Five other journalists were injured by the blast, along with Kumaratunga and scores of onlookers.
12. Indika Pathinivasan, Maharaja Television Network, Technician (1999 – December – 18).
13. Vasthian Anthony Mariyadas, Sri Lankan Broadcasting Corporation, Freelancer (1999 – December – 31). Mariyadas, a freelance radio reporter, was on assignment for the state-run Sri Lankan Broadcasting Corporation when he was killed in the northern town of Vavuniya.
14. Mylvaganam Nimalarajan, BBC, Virakesari, Ravaya, Broadcast Reporter, Print Reporter (2000 – October – 19). On the night of October 19, 2000, a group of unidentified gunmen approached the home of Nimalarajan, a Jaffna-based journalist who reported for various news organizations, including the BBC’s Tamil and Sinhala-language services, the Tamil-language daily Virakesari, and the Sinhala-language weekly Ravaya.
15. Aiyathurai Nadesan, Virakesari, Print Reporter (2004 – May – 31 in Batticaloa). Nadesan, a veteran Tamil journalist with the national Tamil-language daily Virakesari, 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.
16. Bala Nadarajah Iyer, Thinamurasu and Thinakaran, Print Reporter (2004 – August – 16 in Colombo). Iyer, also known as Kandaswamy Aiyer Balanadaraj, a journalist, writer, and political activist with the opposition Tamil group the Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP), was shot and killed by unidentified assailants in the capital, Colombo.
16. Bala Nadarajah Iyer, Thinamurasu and Thinakaran, Print Reporter (2004 – August – 16 in Colombo.) Iyer, also known as Kandaswamy Aiyer Balanadaraj, a journalist, writer, and political activist with the opposition Tamil group the Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP), was shot and killed by unidentified assailants in the capital, Colombo.
17. Lanka Jayasundara, Wijeya Publications, Print Reporter (2004 – December – 11 in Colombo.) Jayasundara (also spelt Jayasundera) was killed in a December 11 grenade attack at a music concert that had drawn controversy because it was held on the anniversary of a Buddhist cleric’s death.
18. Dharmeratnam Sivaram, TamilNet and Daily Mirror, Columnist/Commentator (2005 – April – 29 in Colombo.) Sivaram was abducted on the night of April 28 and found dead the next morning from gunshot wounds to the head. Some say he was therefore killed on April 28.
19. Kannamuttu Arsakumar, Media worker (2005 – June – 29 in Matupola (Kalmunai- Akkaraipattu road). Worked as a newspaper delivery agent in the eastern province. Prior to his murder, had been warned by the state backed paramilitary operatives not to distribute the Batticaloa Edition of "Eelanatham" newspaper.
20. Relangi Selvarajah, Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corp., Columnist/Commentator (2005 – August – 12 in Colombo.) Popular Tamil broadcaster Relangi Selvarajah (also spelt Relangee) and her husband, a political activist, were killed by unidentified gunmen in Colombo on the same day that Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lanka’s foreign minister, was assassinated. Political leaders blamed the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for all three killings, charges the LTTE denied.
