Saturday, January 17, 2009

Sri Lanka: In The Line Of Fire -- A Commentary


From Times Online:

The Sri Lankan editor who foresaw his own assassination died for freedoms that will wither everywhere if taken for granted

On the day of his death Lasantha Wickrematunge's wife begged him not to go to work. No wonder. She had seen motorcycles tailing him that morning, and it was from motorcycles that four men later sprayed his car with machinegun fire at a traffic light in central Colombo.

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