Paramilitaries monopolise Jaffna cable TV through violent intimidation

by admin
Jan 9, 2012

Paramilitary groups are threatening private cable TV operators in Jaffna, into surrendering their businesses to a paramilitary monopoly - MBL Cable Network, reported Tamilnet.

Citing "government permission" the paramilitary groups have told private cable TV operators that their businesses were now illegal and they must now buy channels from the paramilitary network.

The network is backed by 'the Sri Lankan establishment through the forces aligned with Douglas Devananda and Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias KP', Tamilnet reports.

Alexkumar Balasundaram, a cable provider from Kokkuvil, is alleged to have been threatened at gunpoint by paramilitary groups on Saturday.

See article on Tamilnet here.

 

See TGView - 'Ensuring insecurity and instability in Tamil areas' (30 Dec 2010)

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