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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matti PuuSa" data-source="post: 6152526" data-attributes="member: 254988">UNP regime when Dingiri Banda Wijetunga was the President, Ranil Wickremesinghe was the Prime Minister and Tyronne Fernando was the Information Minister.  Premakirthi De Alwis was the most popular broadcaster who lived after the late Karunaratne Abeysekera. His programmes were extremely popular with the Sinhala people. His Iyrics in Sinhala songs haunted the Sinhala intelligentsia of this country. Ranjit Abesuriya, PC, was a great fan of Premakeerthi De Alwis. To ensure that he did not miss Premakeerthi’s lottery show, he had a TV in his consultation room carefully hidden under a curtain. Such was his popularity even amongst busy practising lawyers. Premakeerthi was an innocent young intellectual with exemplary talents. Nonetheless, he was brutally gunned down by the JVP. The media highlighted the death of Premakirthi, but all the agitation ended a few days after his death. Similarly no one speaks of the death of Thevis Guruge and the news broadcaster Sagarika Gomes. Nor do they speak about the killing of three members of the Rupavahini TV camera crew who went to Jaffna to film the aftermath of JRJ’s Peace Accord. They were killed by the LTTE and their bodies were burnt. Even I have forgotten their names. No one speaks about them. This is a clear indication that the killing of the media people is accepted and granted when it is suspected or said to be done by the terrorists in the South or North.</blockquote>

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