K.S. Raja

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).
This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its
sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations.
You can improve this article by introducing more precise citations.
This article cites its sources but does not provide page references.
You can improve this article by introducing citations that are more precise.
K. S. Raja
K. S. Raja

K.S. Raja (also spelled K.S. Rajah, full name Kanakaratnam Sriskandarajah) was a very popular Radio Ceylon radio announcer in Sri Lanka and South India.[1]

Contents

[edit] Biography

He was born in a town called Karainagar in the Jaffna peninsula to middle class minority Sri Lankan Tamil parents and grew up in Kotatadi, Jaffna.

[edit] Career in Radio Ceylon

Sri Lankan Conflict
Background

• Sri Lanka • History of Sri Lanka
Origins of the Civil War

• Origins of the Civil War
• Black July • Human Rights Issues • Riots and pogroms
• Attributed State terrorism
• Prison massacres
• Tamil militant groups
LTTE

• LTTE • Attributed Terrorist attacks • Child Soldiers
• Attributed assasinations
• Notable Attacks • Expulsion of Muslims from Jaffna
Major figures

• Mahinda Rajapakse
• Velupillai Prabhakaran
• Karuna Amman
• Sarath Fonseka
Indian Involvement

• Indian Peace Keeping Force
• Rajiv Gandhi • RAW
See also

• Military of Sri Lanka
• TMVP • EPDP
• Notable assassinations

This box: view • talk • edit

He was a pioneering announcer in the Tamil language known for his melodious voice and innovative programs. His programs were popular in the state of Tamil Nadu in India.[2]

Human Rights in Sri Lanka

Assasinations of Journalists
Aiyathurai Nadesan-Balanadarajah Iyer-K.S.Raja-Mylvaganam Nimalrajan-Richard De Soyza-Thevis Guruge-Taraki Sivaram-Relangi Selvarajah-Nadarajah Atputharajah-I.Shanmugalingam-Subramaniyam Sugirdharajan–Sinnathamby Sivamaharajah

[edit] His death

After the 1983 Black July anti-minority pogrom he briefly moved to India and was involved with the Tamil militant group EPRLF. Subsequent to the Indo-Sri Lanka peace accord in 1987, he returned to his former job in Radio Ceylon now known as Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation. With the resumption of hostilities between the government of Sri Lanka and the main rebel group LTTE he was abducted by unknown persons and found murdered in a Colombo beach.

[edit] Controversy

According a former member of a Tamil militant group known as the EPDP which in itself was a pro government splinter group from the EPRLF that K.S. Raja was once part of, K.S Raja was killed by orders of Douglas Devananda the leader of EPDP.[3] When Douglas Devanada was asked about his involvement in the murder of K. S. Raja, he did not directly deny responsibility or answer the question instead pointed to other journalists allegedly killed by LTTE.[4]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../k/2E/s/K.S._Raja_33d8.html"
In other languages