David “D.B.S.” Jeyaraj, NF ’89, a Sri Lankan journalist who covered ethnic conflict and civil war in his country, dies at 71

David Buell Sabapathy “D.B.S.” Jeyaraj, a political journalist and columnist who reported on events in Sri Lanka both on the ground and while living in exile in Canada for nearly four decades, died on May 17, 2026 , in Toronto at the age of 71. Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1954, Jeyaraj studied at Jaffna College before beginning his journalism career at the Tamil-language newspaper Virakesari in…