The Enduring Harassment and Oppression of Tamil Journalists in Sri Lanka (2009–2025)
Silenced Voices, Shattered Freedoms: The Enduring Harassment and Oppression of Tamil Journalists in Sri Lanka (2009–2025) A Comprehensive Analysis of the Harassment, Intimidation, Threats, and Systematic Rights Violations Faced by Tamil Journalists under Sri Lankan State and Security Apparatus Since the End of the armed conflict. Edited By: Wimal Navaratnam-ABC Tamil Oli 1 Introduction Over fifteen years since the formal end of Sri Lanka’s brutal civil war, the country’s Tamil journalists have remained at the frontlines of risk, their profession marked by unprecedented harassment, legal persecution, intimidation, assaults, disappearances, and killings. Instead of a new dawn of reconciliation and press freedom, the experiences of Tamil journalists in the post-2009 era have reflected persistent state oppression, entrenched impunity for abuses, and a climate where press freedoms, particularly for those reporting on m...