What makes to one boldest journalist to leave its country?
When the Sunday
Leader’s editor Lasantha Wickramatunga was gunned down in 2009, he saw it
coming. We know that because he wrote an editorial on his own death, published
posthumously in his paper, in which he blamed his killing on the government of
Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka's president. Frederica Jansz was the editor of
Sunday leader. She was sacked from her job for reporting a number of reports exposing Seneviratne's property developments
and investment deals.
After threaten she has to leave own country with his two sons. Aljajeera has
interviewed her where she exposed the condition of Srilankan media. Frederica
Jansz was threatened by the defense secretary of Srilanka where she published
the transcript version of her talk.
Where He said to her “sue [her] fucking newspaper” if she wrote “any bloody word
about this”. He also barked that he was “not
afraid of the bloody courts”.
In a second telephone conversation, Mr
Rajapaksa elaborated. He called Mrs Jansz “a fucking shit, a pig who eats
shit”. “Shit, shit, shit journalists!” he ranted.
“Ninety
percent of the people in this country hate you! They hate you! You come for a
function where I am and I will tell people this is the editor of The Sunday
Leader and 90% there will show that they hate you.” “People will kill you! People hate you! They
will kill you!” he shouted next. As it happens, Ms Jansz took over the
newspaper after its founding editor, when she questioned that she
will be killed like Lasantha
Wickramatunga .the defense secretary seemed to prevaricate. “What? No. Not mine. But they will
kill you, you dirty fucking shit journalist.”
It is the recent example of detaining of media. Media of every country is suffering from interference
of politicians. China is protesting to free the media. India is also under the
control of political parties and capitalistic. They are saying things which are
said by these kinds of people. If someone has dared to expose the scam then
journalist have to either lose its job or life. It is very cruel situation
where media is forcibly stopped by the powerful people. Media is known as
watchdog on democracy and system of general public but when it is under the
attack then raising voice against something will be completely stop and then people have
to live once again under the dictatorship. Media have to think globally on this
issues and protection of journalist.
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