News: attack

08/15/2011 | news.lk
The Northern Province Senior DIG Gamini Silva has said that the main suspect in the attack on the News Editor of Uthayan newspaper Gnanasunderam Kuganathan has been taken into police custody this morning. He has said that a special police team was deployed from Jaffna to apprehend the suspect while at the Kalubowila Hospital in Colombo.
07/30/2011 | AFP
An ethnic Tamil journalist in Sri Lanka's formerly embattled north was brutally attacked with iron bars, police said on Saturday, the latest in a string of assaults on the nation's media.
attack, Uthayan
05/28/2011 | Sunday Times
A Jaffna-based journalist attached with the local newspaper Udayan was assaulted by a group of thugs while on his way to work earlier this morning, his newspaper said.
03/31/2011 | BBC
Three Sri Lankan soldiers sentenced to death for the abduction and murder of a Tamil woman in 1996 appeal against their sentences.
07/30/2010 | BBC
An armed gang has attacked a private TV and radio station in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, with firebombs.