Silencing the Tamil Voice in Sri Lanka

(31 August 09-RV) A Sri Lankan reporter singled out by President Barack Obama as an example of persecuted journalists around the globe was sentenced today to 20 years in prison on charges of violating the country's anti-terror law.
J.S. Tissainayagam's articles in the now-defunct Northeastern Monthly magazine in 2006 and 2007 criticized the conduct of the war against the Tamil Tiger rebels and accused authorities of withholding food and other essential items from Tamil-majority areas as a tool of war.
Reporters without borders spokesperson Vincent Bruxelles said government is set on  silencing Tamils: