Sri Lankan Airforce attacked the Voice of Tigers radio station in the then Tamil Tiger rebel controlled Killinochchi on November 27, 2007. The attack killed a journalist Isaivizhi Chempian and two media workers Suresh Limbiyo and T.Tharmalingam and 9 others.Reporters Without Borders called the attack a War Crime.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
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- ↑ "Nine killed in LTTE radio station attack in northern Sri Lanka". The Times of India. 28 November 2007. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
- ↑ "Isaivizhi Chempiyan". Committee to Protect Journalists. 3 March 2025. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
- ↑ "Media workers killed/disappeared in 2007". jdslanka.org. 12 February 2007. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
- ↑ "TamilNet: 27.11.07 SLAF bombs VoT radio station in Vanni, 11 killed, 15 wounded". TamilNet. 27 November 2007. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
- ↑ "RSF". TamilNet: 27.11.07 Airstrike on VoT, a war crime. 27 November 2007. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
- ↑ "Reporters Without Borders says air strike on rebel radio station is "war crime"". RSF. 12 November 2001. Retrieved 11 April 2025.