[2] Nadesan, the father of four children and aged 50 at the time of his death, hailed from Nelliyadi, a town in North Jaffna District in Sri Lanka.

The hearse was taken to the Nelliyady Madhya Maha Vidiyalayam Thursday morning from his residence where funeral orations were delivered by Tamil National Alliance parliamentarians, LTTE activists and Sunanda Deshapriya of the Free Media Movement.

A protest demonstration was held in Colombo on 9 June 2004, condemning Nadesan's killing, and a one-day shutdown was observed in the town of Trincomalee.

[citation needed] And also he was the local correspondent for Shakthi TV News and the London based International Broadcasting Corporation.

Mr. Nadesan had received a telephone death threat after his paper ran an article in March 2000 about atrocities committed by a member of the People's Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam or PLOTE, an armed paramilitary group that supports the Government's battle against LTTE separatists.