Relangi Selvarajah

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Relangi Selvarajah (1960 – 12 August 2005) was a popular Tamil broadcaster and a one time actress. She was assassinated by unknown assailants on 12 August in Colombo, Sri Lanka.^[1]

Biography

Relangi was born in Jaffna to minority Sri Lankan Tamil parents and grew up in Jaffna. She was married to Sinnadurai Selvarajah who was also killed along with her. Although both husband and wife were of Tamil ethnicity they were shot allegedly by LTTE. The couple had a girl who was less than one year old when the parents were killed.^[2]

Career in journalism

In 1987 she joined the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) and was working as a senior announcer since 2000. Later she worked as an announcer and news reader in Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC). At the time of her death was working as a freelancer in SLRC. She was the announcer Uthaya Darisanam program on every Sunday at 9:00 a.m to 10:30 a.m. She started her career as an announcer in Jaffna Manikkural local broadcasting service from 1979 to 1983.^[2] She was named the best actress for her part in the locally made Tamil language film Theivam thantha Veedu in 1978.^[2] Local newspapers also reported that Selvarajah also produced the SLBC program Ithaya Veenai, a program known for criticizing the main rebel group LTTE, and allegedly funded by the opposition Tamil political party, the Eelam People's Democratic Party.^[3]

Death

Assassinations of Journalists during the Sri Lankan Civil War
Atputharajah Nadarajah Premakeerthi de Alwis Richard De Soyza Thevis Guruge Balanadarajah Iyer Aiyathurai Nadesan Mylvaganam Nimalrajan K.S.Raja Taraki Sivaram Relangi Selvarajah S. Sivamaharajah Subramaniyam Sugirdharajan Rajani Thiranagama Rohana Kumara P. Devakumaran Lasantha Wickramatunge
See also Human rights in Sri Lanka
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Relangi 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 or LTTE for all three killings, charges the LTTE denied.^[3]

The attackers shot Selvarajah, 44, and her husband, Sinnadurai, in the office where they ran a travel agency. Sri Lanka's The Sunday Times reported that the LTTE had criticized Selvarajah for broadcasting anti-LTTE programs.^[3]

Selvarajah's husband was affiliated with the formerly militant and now mainstream group, the People's Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam PLOTE, according to local news reports and sources. PLOTE was critical of the LTTE; the LTTE accused PLOTE for attacking its members, according to The Associated Press. Sri Lanka's Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) quoted police as saying that they suspected the couple may have been murdered because of Selvarajah's anti-LTTE programs.^[3]

References

^ "Director-General condemns murder of Sri Lankan journalist Relangi Selvarajah and her husband". UNESCO. 12 August 2005. Archived from the original on 13 January 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2020 – via archive.is.
^ ^a ^b ^c TV reporter killed Tamilnet.com report
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d CPJ report on 2005 Killings of Journalist Archived 2006-10-06 at the Wayback Machine

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Sri Lankan civil war (1983–2009)

Origins

Combatants

Sri Lanka	Army (LRRP) Navy Air Force Police Special Task Force Home Guards Attacks on civilians Assassinations
LTTE	Divisions Air Tigers Sea Tigers Black Tigers Attacks in the 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Assassinations Suicide bombings
Other militants (list)	ENDLF ENLF EPRLF EROS PLOTE TELO
India	Indian Peace Keeping Force
Paramilitary groups	EPDP TMVP

Phases

Major battles

Major events

Leaders

Sri Lanka

Military

Army	Tissa Weeratunga Nalin Seneviratne Hamilton Wanasinghe Cecil Waidyaratne G. H. De Silva Rohan Daluwatte Srilal Weerasooriya L. P. Balagalle Shantha Kottegoda Sarath Fonseka
Navy	Asoka de Silva H. A. Silva Clancy Fernando D. A. M. R. Samarasekara H. C. A. C. Thisera Daya Sandagiri Wasantha Karannagoda
Air Force	Dick Perera Andibuduge Fernando Makalandage Gunawardena Oliver Ranasinghe Jayalath Weerakkody Donald Perera Roshan Goonetileke

Civilian

LTTE

Militant	Velupillai Prabhakaran Pottu Amman Soosai Karuna Amman
Political	Selvarasa Pathmanathan Anton Balasingham S. P. Thamilselvan

India

Military	Harkirat Singh Ashok K. Mehta Kulwant Singh Depinder Singh Dalvir Singh Krishnaswamy Sundarji
Civilian	R. Venkataraman Rajiv Gandhi V. P. Singh Jyotindra Nath Dixit J. Jayalalithaa M. Karunanidhi Vaiko

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