SRI LANKAN JUNIOR GOVERNMENT MINISTER TRIES TO INVADE TV STATION AND COMES A GUTSER
December 30th 2007 01:05
A Sri Lankan junior government minister, Mervyn Silva, made an international prat of himself after tele-footage was broadcast globally of him storming into the state-owned SLRC TV station with armed men and assaulting its news director for not airing a recent speech he had made.
Silva has a reputation for trying to intimidate journalists, and his latest tirade prompted the entire staff of the station to stop work and stage a strike in protest against the violence, according to Lanka Business Online.
TMG Chandrasekera, director of news at SLRC, and a victim of the assault told Lanka Business Online, "About 10.05am Mervyn Silva and his goons came to the newsroom and accused me of not airing a news item about himself.
Chandrasekera said SLRC employees prevented the minister and his men from leaving the premises until he apologised. The minister was released after he apologised and was escorted out by a police rescue team.
- From MediaBlab
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