A Summary of the Order
Journalist Tissainayagam was indicted in the
High Court of Colombo on the following offences…
1. Between the 1st of June 2006 and the 1st of June 2007 you have with persons unknown to the prosecution, with intent to commit a crime with a common intention with or without premeditation by word, sign, or visual representation have caused to wit arousing communal feelings by editing, printing or distributing the magazine called North Eastern Monthly, you have conspired and committed the offence punishable under s.113(b) and s.102 and The Prevention of Terrorism Act.
2. You have in the same course of events, have published or distributed the articles listed herein in the North Eastern Monthly magazine and committed the offence as referred to in the above law.
3. You have in the course of the said events, collected money or made payments on terrorism or aided and abetted by collecting money for the said magazine, North Eastern Monthly has committed the offence as referred to in the Emergency Regulations published on the 6th of December 2006.(more)
4 comments:
Tissainayagam has committed a crime. He violated the law. He must be punished.
What if someone committed murder, theft, arson, rape, vandalism? Aren't they crimes?
Similarly violating the PTA, ER and writing hatred are crimes and MUST be punished as per the law.
Journalists cannot have a separate law from the people.
It is hilarious some journalists are demanding free media while violating the law. Where do they draw the freedom of speech? From the constitution and other laws. If they violate these laws, they are destroying the basis of freedom.
I sincerely hope that not only Tissanaigam, but also all those who violate the PTA go to life imprisonment. They are criminals worse than murderers.
From the Summary: “He had further said that the accused had also written articles against the LTTE, of which he was unable to produce any.”
Tissainayagam is not, nor ever was, a “journalist”. He was a paid lackey of an internationally recognized terrorist group who never criticized the LTTE even as they heaped atrocities upon his fellow Tamils. The fact that so-called “journalist groups;’ are falling over each other to heap honours on this paid terrorist supporter is a fitting testimony to the appalling standards to which the field of journalism.
New York Times reporter Walter Duranty won the Pulitzer prize for writing a series of article praising the dictatorial government of Joseph Stalin; plus Duranty denied Stalin’s role in the 1932-1933 starvation massacre of millions of Ukrainians. If Duranty were alive today, he would be envious of the shameful tributes now heaped on Tissainayagam.
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