Stop the media killing! Let media to be free!
HALL MEETING
In Memory of Lasantha Wikrematunge
Saturday, January 31 2009, 3:00 to 6:00 pm
Scarborough Civic Center
Scarborough (Public Transit: subway to Kennedy, then L.R.T. to Scarborough Town Centre)
The Zero Zone, a coalition for stop the war in Sri Lanka have called on community media and all supporters to support the meeting to demand that the Canadian government call for an immediate end to the media massacre in Sri Lanka.
This meeting organized in memorization of late Lasantha Wikrematunge, the Chief Editor of the well known Sri Lankan News Paper Sunday Leader. He, couple of weeks ago in the capital of Sri Lanka, Colombo assassinated by suspected underground groups. In his aftermath editorial says "When finally I am killed, it will be the government that kills me."
The ‘Reporters Without Borders’ said about the murder, "President Mahinda Rajapakshe, his associates and the government media are directly to blame because they incited hatred against him and allowed an outrageous level of impunity to develop as regards violence against the press." He received numerous death threats through the past years and once machine gun bullets were sprayed at his home.
We request the community media to express their gratitude and homage in this meeting to Lasantha who died for the cause.
If your media wants to have time to say your say at the meeting please confirm it through the email as a help to prepare the event.
We ask the Tamil community media and other organizations with social concern to endorse this event.
To endorse, please e-mail zerozonewar@gmail.com
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