Sri Lanka: ‘The gun is silencing the pen’ — Jaffna journalists (TamilNet)
Yahoo May 10th, 2007
Following the recent murder of another journalist in Jaffna by suspected Army-backed paramilitaries, the Journalists Union there has appealed to the international community to defend media freedom in Sri Lanka. Despite international media watchdogs' disquiet over threats to Sri Lankan journalists, paramilitaries are openly threatening media workers and civil society activists in the northern ...
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