Ramkumar Ravichchandrasarma

Ramkumar Ravichchandrasarma is an award-winning journalist and News Editor at Express Newspapers Ceylon Limited, where he oversees the Tamil daily ‘Virakesari’.

Twenty years later, Tamil broadcaster Relangi Selvarajah’s killers still remain unknown

Relangi Selvarajah’s killing in 2005 is a reminder of the risks faced by critics of Tamil militancy and the LTTE during Sri Lanka’s civil war – and of the persisting impunity around crimes against journalists in the country

By Ramkumar Ravichchandrasarma

/ 23 Sep 2025

An art performance of laying down handprints in red paint on a white sheet to remember Black January which remembers journali