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{{Short description|Abduction in Sri Lanka}}
{{Short description|Abduction in Sri Lanka}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Vadivel Nimalarajah
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| employer = [[Uthayan]] Newspaper
| employer = [[Uthayan]] Newspaper
| occupation = Journalist
| occupation = Journalist
| disappeared_place = [[Jaffna]], [[Sri Lanka]]
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| disappeared_status = {{missing for|2007|11|17}} }}
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'''Vadivel Nimalarajah''' is a minority [[Sri Lankan Tamil]] proof reader for the newspaper [[Uthayan]] in [[Jaffna]]. He has been missing after being abducted on November 17, 2007, after working overnight in the [[Uthayan]] newspaper office. Uthayan has been specifically targeted for its independent reporting by the Sri Lankan military and the paramilitary group [[EPDP]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://rsf.org/en/news/tamil-newspapers-proof-reader-missing-jaffna | title=Tamil newspaper's proof reader missing in Jaffna | publisher=[[Reporters Without Borders]] | date=22 November 2007 | access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.com/sinhala/news/story/2009/08/090830_rsf_disappearances.shtml | title=Disappeared journalists: Lanka 'among worst' | publisher=BBC | date=30 August 2009 | access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref><ref>[https://www.amnesty.org/en/appeals-for-action/call-protection-sri-lankan-media-workers Amnesty:Call for the protection of Sri Lankan media workers]</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/eoir/legacy/2013/06/12/SriLanka_062008.pdf | title=COUNTRY OF ORIGIN INFORMATION REPORT SRI LANKA | publisher=Home Office UK Border Agency | date=11 June 2008 | access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref>[[International Federation of Journalists]] lists his case in its campaign "Without a Trace" amongst the top 10 cases of enforced disappearances of media workers which still remains untraced in Asia Pacific.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.journalismpakistan.com/IFJ-Asia-Pacific-launches-Without-A-Trace-campaign-for-missing-journalists | title=FJ Asia-Pacific launches 'Without A Trace' campaign for missing journalists | publisher=Journalism in Pakistan | date=16 November 2015 | access-date=27 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ifj.org/nc/news-single-view/category/campaigns-4/article/enforced-journalist-disappearances-ifj-counts-the-missing-days/ | title=Enforced journalist disappearances: IFJ counts the missing days | publisher=[[International Federation of Journalists]] | date=8 September 2016 | access-date=26 July 2018}}</ref>

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'''Vadivel Nimalarajah''' is a minority [[Sri Lankan Tamil]] proof reader for the newspaper [[Uthayan]] in [[Jaffna]]. He has been missing after being abducted on November 17, 2007, after working overnight in the [[Uthayan]] newspaper office. Uthayan has been specifically targeted for its independent reporting by the Sri Lankan military and the paramilitary group [[EPDP]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://rsf.org/en/tamil-newspapers-proof-reader-missing-jaffna | title=Tamil newspaper's proof reader missing in Jaffna | publisher=[[Reporters Without Borders]] | date=22 November 2007 | access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.com/sinhala/news/story/2009/08/090830_rsf_disappearances.shtml | title=Disappeared journalists: Lanka 'among worst' | publisher=BBC | date=30 August 2009 | access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref><ref>[https://www.amnesty.org/en/appeals-for-action/call-protection-sri-lankan-media-workers Amnesty:Call for the protection of Sri Lankan media workers]</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/eoir/legacy/2013/06/12/SriLanka_062008.pdf | title=COUNTRY OF ORIGIN INFORMATION REPORT SRI LANKA | publisher=Home Office UK Border Agency | date=11 June 2008 | access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref>[[International Federation of Journalists]] lists his case in its campaign "Without a Trace" amongst the top 10 cases of enforced disappearances of media workers which still remains untraced in Asia Pacific.<ref name="Bay 2016">{{cite web | last=Bay | first=Web | title=Enforced journalist disappearances: IFJ counts the missing days / IFJ | website=IFJ | date=29 Aug 2016 | url=https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/press-releases/article/enforced-journalist-disappearances-ifj-counts-the-missing-days | access-date=24 Apr 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.journalismpakistan.com/IFJ-Asia-Pacific-launches-Without-A-Trace-campaign-for-missing-journalists | title=FJ Asia-Pacific launches 'Without A Trace' campaign for missing journalists | publisher=Journalism in Pakistan | date=16 November 2015 | access-date=27 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ifj.org/nc/news-single-view/category/campaigns-4/article/enforced-journalist-disappearances-ifj-counts-the-missing-days/ | title=Enforced journalist disappearances: IFJ counts the missing days | publisher=[[International Federation of Journalists]] | date=8 September 2016 | access-date=26 July 2018}}</ref>


== Background==
== Background==
Nimalarajah lived in Kachcheari-Nalloor road in [[Jaffna]] which is about 2 kilometers from the [[Uthayan]] office.He was 31 years old and unmarried.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=23815 | title=Uthayan staffer, family man feared abducted in Jaffna | publisher=[[Tamilnet]] | date=19 November 2007 | access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mediasupport.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ims-press-lockdown-srilanka-2008.pdf | title=Media under fire: Press freedom lockdown in Sri Lanka | publisher=International Media Support | access-date=19 July 2018 | pages=15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.jdslanka.org/index.php/killed-media-workers/40-killed-media-workers/82-media-workers-killeddisappeared-in-2007 | title=Media workers killed/disappeared in 2007 | publisher=JDS | access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref> This incident is part of acts of violence and intimidation against journalists and human rights activists taking place in areas controlled by the Sri Lankan government.<ref>[http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA370032007?open&of=ENG-LKA Sri Lanka: Incommunicado detention/ fear of torture or ill-treatment/ detention without charge\n | Amnesty International]</ref> Vadivel Nimalarajah was abducted by a paramilitary allied with the Sri Lankan Army earlier two journalists of [[Uthayan]] were killed after a cartoon mocking [[Douglas Devananda]].<ref>[http://asiapacific.ifj.org/en/articles/media-terror-in-sri-lankas-jaffna Media Terror in Sri Lanka's Jaffna]</ref><ref>[https://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/03/05/sri-lanka-disappearances-security-forces-national-crisis HRW Sri Lanka: ‘Disappearances’ by Security Forces a National Crisis]</ref> His disappearance is part of a series of disappearances of Tamils in Jaffna which is under Army control.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2007/03/070323_jaffna_batticaloa.shtml BBC White van 'terrorizes' Jaffna]</ref><ref name="LoCiceroSinclair2008">{{cite book|author1=Alice LoCicero|author2=Samuel J. Sinclair|title=Creating Young Martyrs: Conditions that Make Dying in a Terrorist Attack Seem Like a Good Idea|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HDxU1oT0s00C&pg=PA80|access-date=19 July 2018|year=2008|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-275-99690-1|pages=80–}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002447/244731E.pdf | title=THE ROAD TO RESILIENCE PRESS FREEDOM IN SOUTH ASIA 2015-16 | publisher=UNESCO | access-date=19 July 2018 | pages=17}}</ref>
Nimalarajah lived in Kachcheari-Nalloor road in [[Jaffna]] which is about 2 kilometers from the [[Uthayan]] office.He was 31 years old and unmarried.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=23815 | title=Uthayan staffer, family man feared abducted in Jaffna | publisher=[[Tamilnet]] | date=19 November 2007 | access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mediasupport.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ims-press-lockdown-srilanka-2008.pdf | title=Media under fire: Press freedom lockdown in Sri Lanka | publisher=International Media Support | access-date=19 July 2018 | pages=15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.jdslanka.org/index.php/killed-media-workers/40-killed-media-workers/82-media-workers-killeddisappeared-in-2007 | title=Media workers killed/disappeared in 2007 | publisher=JDS | access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref> This incident is part of acts of violence and intimidation against journalists and human rights activists taking place in areas controlled by the Sri Lankan government.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA370032007?open&of=ENG-LKA |title=Sri Lanka: Incommunicado detention/ fear of torture or ill-treatment/ detention without charge\n {{!}} Amnesty International |access-date=2022-04-03 |archive-date=2007-10-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022100302/http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA370032007?open&of=ENG-LKA |url-status=dead }}</ref> Vadivel Nimalarajah was abducted by a paramilitary allied with the Sri Lankan Army [[Suresh Kumar and Ranjith Kumar incident|earlier two journalists]] of [[Uthayan]] were killed after a cartoon mocking [[Douglas Devananda]].<ref>[http://asiapacific.ifj.org/en/articles/media-terror-in-sri-lankas-jaffna Media Terror in Sri Lanka's Jaffna]</ref><ref>[https://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/03/05/sri-lanka-disappearances-security-forces-national-crisis HRW Sri Lanka: ‘Disappearances’ by Security Forces a National Crisis]</ref> His disappearance is part of a series of disappearances of Tamils in Jaffna which is under Army control.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2007/03/070323_jaffna_batticaloa.shtml BBC White van 'terrorizes' Jaffna]</ref><ref name="LoCiceroSinclair2008">{{cite book|author1=Alice LoCicero|author2=Samuel J. Sinclair|title=Creating Young Martyrs: Conditions that Make Dying in a Terrorist Attack Seem Like a Good Idea|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HDxU1oT0s00C&pg=PA80|access-date=19 July 2018|year=2008|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-275-99690-1|pages=80–}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002447/244731E.pdf | title=THE ROAD TO RESILIENCE PRESS FREEDOM IN SOUTH ASIA 2015-16 | publisher=UNESCO | access-date=19 July 2018 | pages=17}}</ref>


==Incident and reaction==
==Incident and reaction==
Vadivel Nimalarajah disappeared on November 17, 2007, after working overnight in the [[Uthayan]] newspaper office in what is termed as an enforced disappearance by human rights groups.<ref>[https://www.hrw.org/en/node/62398/section/3 Human Rights Watch Recurring Nightmare]</ref> A journalist working for Agence France-Presse describing the situation in Jaffna as terrible said {{cquote|I have never seen anything like it. Even in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, foreign journalists had more freedom of movement".<ref>[http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=25690 RSF Sri Lanka - Annual report 2008]</ref>}}
Vadivel Nimalarajah disappeared on November 17, 2007, after working overnight in the [[Uthayan]] newspaper office in what is termed as an enforced disappearance by human rights groups.<ref>[https://www.hrw.org/en/node/62398/section/3 Human Rights Watch Recurring Nightmare]</ref><ref name="LoCicero Sinclair 2008 p. 80">{{cite book | last1=LoCicero | first1=A. | last2=Sinclair | first2=S.J. | title=Creating Young Martyrs: Conditions that Make Dying in a Terrorist Attack Seem Like a Good Idea | publisher=Praeger Security International | series=Contemporary psychology | year=2008 | isbn=978-0-275-99690-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tHlSNDRFjmAC&pg=PA80 | access-date=24 Apr 2023 | page=80}}</ref> A journalist working for Agence France-Presse describing the situation in Jaffna as terrible said {{cquote|I have never seen anything like it. Even in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, foreign journalists had more freedom of movement".<ref>[http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=25690 RSF Sri Lanka - Annual report 2008]</ref>}}

==See also==
*[[List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present|List of people who disappeared]]


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
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*[http://www.thesundayleader.lk/20071125/Issues-1.htm Sad saga of post Rajapakse media freedom] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926164342/http://www.thesundayleader.lk/20071125/Issues-1.htm |date=2008-09-26 }}
*[http://www.tamilnet.com/img/publish/2008/05/IFJSrilankaList.pdf Sri Lanka Journalists attacked Killed]
*[http://www.tamilnet.com/img/publish/2008/05/IFJSrilankaList.pdf Sri Lanka Journalists attacked Killed]
*[http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,RSF,,LKA,,47b418c9c,0.html UNHCR Report]
*[http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,RSF,,LKA,,47b418c9c,0.html UNHCR Report]
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*[http://www.thesundayleader.lk/20071125/Issues-1.htm Sad saga of post Rajapakse media freedom] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926164342/http://www.thesundayleader.lk/20071125/Issues-1.htm |date=2008-09-26 }}


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Latest revision as of 01:39, 29 November 2024

Vadivel Nimalarajah
DisappearedJaffna, Sri Lanka
StatusMissing for 17 years, 1 month and 2 days
OccupationJournalist
EmployerUthayan Newspaper

Vadivel Nimalarajah is a minority Sri Lankan Tamil proof reader for the newspaper Uthayan in Jaffna. He has been missing after being abducted on November 17, 2007, after working overnight in the Uthayan newspaper office. Uthayan has been specifically targeted for its independent reporting by the Sri Lankan military and the paramilitary group EPDP.[1][2][3][4]International Federation of Journalists lists his case in its campaign "Without a Trace" amongst the top 10 cases of enforced disappearances of media workers which still remains untraced in Asia Pacific.[5][6][7]

Background

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Nimalarajah lived in Kachcheari-Nalloor road in Jaffna which is about 2 kilometers from the Uthayan office.He was 31 years old and unmarried.[8][9][10] This incident is part of acts of violence and intimidation against journalists and human rights activists taking place in areas controlled by the Sri Lankan government.[11] Vadivel Nimalarajah was abducted by a paramilitary allied with the Sri Lankan Army earlier two journalists of Uthayan were killed after a cartoon mocking Douglas Devananda.[12][13] His disappearance is part of a series of disappearances of Tamils in Jaffna which is under Army control.[14][15][16]

Incident and reaction

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Vadivel Nimalarajah disappeared on November 17, 2007, after working overnight in the Uthayan newspaper office in what is termed as an enforced disappearance by human rights groups.[17][18] A journalist working for Agence France-Presse describing the situation in Jaffna as terrible said

I have never seen anything like it. Even in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, foreign journalists had more freedom of movement".[19]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Tamil newspaper's proof reader missing in Jaffna". Reporters Without Borders. 22 November 2007. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Disappeared journalists: Lanka 'among worst'". BBC. 30 August 2009. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  3. ^ Amnesty:Call for the protection of Sri Lankan media workers
  4. ^ "COUNTRY OF ORIGIN INFORMATION REPORT SRI LANKA" (PDF). Home Office UK Border Agency. 11 June 2008. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  5. ^ Bay, Web (29 Aug 2016). "Enforced journalist disappearances: IFJ counts the missing days / IFJ". IFJ. Retrieved 24 Apr 2023.
  6. ^ "FJ Asia-Pacific launches 'Without A Trace' campaign for missing journalists". Journalism in Pakistan. 16 November 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  7. ^ "Enforced journalist disappearances: IFJ counts the missing days". International Federation of Journalists. 8 September 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  8. ^ "Uthayan staffer, family man feared abducted in Jaffna". Tamilnet. 19 November 2007. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  9. ^ "Media under fire: Press freedom lockdown in Sri Lanka" (PDF). International Media Support. p. 15. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  10. ^ "Media workers killed/disappeared in 2007". JDS. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  11. ^ "Sri Lanka: Incommunicado detention/ fear of torture or ill-treatment/ detention without charge\n | Amnesty International". Archived from the original on 2007-10-22. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  12. ^ Media Terror in Sri Lanka's Jaffna
  13. ^ HRW Sri Lanka: ‘Disappearances’ by Security Forces a National Crisis
  14. ^ BBC White van 'terrorizes' Jaffna
  15. ^ Alice LoCicero; Samuel J. Sinclair (2008). Creating Young Martyrs: Conditions that Make Dying in a Terrorist Attack Seem Like a Good Idea. ABC-CLIO. pp. 80–. ISBN 978-0-275-99690-1. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  16. ^ "THE ROAD TO RESILIENCE PRESS FREEDOM IN SOUTH ASIA 2015-16" (PDF). UNESCO. p. 17. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  17. ^ Human Rights Watch Recurring Nightmare
  18. ^ LoCicero, A.; Sinclair, S.J. (2008). Creating Young Martyrs: Conditions that Make Dying in a Terrorist Attack Seem Like a Good Idea. Contemporary psychology. Praeger Security International. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-275-99690-1. Retrieved 24 Apr 2023.
  19. ^ RSF Sri Lanka - Annual report 2008
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