Another SLRC emplyee attacked

They insist on an assurance that continuing attacks on them is stopped.

They stopped all live programmes on Friday to protest against the latest attack on Anurasiri Hettige, the latest employee who came under attack by thugs.

Hettige is also a SLRC trade union leader affiliated to JVP.

Anurasiri Hettige, was beaten by an unidentified gang using an iron rod, police said. He was admitted to the Colombo National Hospital.

Hettige was on his way to SLRC when he was assaulted.

The employees brought all live programmes to a stop on Friday until President Mahinda Rajapaksa intervenes and gives an assurance that violence against Rupavhini employees would be brought to an end.

Poddala Jayantha , the General Secretary of the Working Journalists Association (SLWJA) said those twenty one employees who were questioned by the CID are becoming victims of these organised attacks.

	Anurasiri Hettige attacked by thugs

The victims were visible in video footage of the incident on December 27 where Labour minister Mervyn Silva and his aides were accused of assaulting the news director of Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC), he said.

"There has been no action taken against those responsible for the cause of the problem as yet and this is how justice is brought about", said Poddala Jayantha.

This is the fifth SLRC employee who came under such attack by thugs.

A librarian of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) Ranjani Aluthge was slashed with a razor on 05 March.