 Before joining "Uthayan", Rajivarnam had worked for three years for the newspaper "Namathu Eelanadu", whose managing editor, Sinnathamby Sivamaharajah, was murdered in August 2006, and for the daily "Yarl Thinakural", one of whose journalists, Subramaniam Ramachandran, has been missing since February 2007.Rajivarnam was killed in an area secured by the Sri Lankan Army.According to Reporters Without Borders, Jaffna journalists allege that a local paramilitary group known as the EPDP was involved in his murder as well as those of two other journalists from the same daily one year ago.