Shoba
Year: 2009
Nationality: Sri Lanka
Killed by: Military Officials
Location: Mullivaikkal, Sri Lanka
Press organization: O'liveechchu
What's Shoba's story?
Tamil news presenter Shoba was shown shot and killed inamateur video filmed by Sri Lankan soldiers and obtained by the U.K.’s Channel4. Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka said Shoba died in the town of Mullivaikkalin the northeastern “no fire zone.”Shoba, who went by one name, also reported under the nameIsaipriya or Isaippiriya for the media division of the secessionist LiberationTigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), including the videomagazine O’liveechchu, according to Channel 4 and the pro-LTTE TamilNet news website. The mannerof Shoba’s death is not known, although several point-blank executions of boundprisoners were filmed in the same location. Channel 4 reporter Jon Snow said inthe documentary film, “Sri Lanka‘s Killing Fields,” that Shoba’s bodywas found among some that “appear to have been raped or sexually assaulted, andthen murdered.”The Sri Lankan Ministry of Defense described Shoba as Lt.
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