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@ 2009-01-13 02:42 pm UTC
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Lasantha Wickrematunge killed, as he predicted in his final editorial.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/13/wickrematunga-final-editorial-final-editorial

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[identity profile] cassandre.livejournal.com
2009-01-13 11:42 pm UTC (link)
That is one of the most moving things I've ever read. Some people are almost unimaginably brave.

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[identity profile] alephnul.livejournal.com
2009-01-14 06:58 am UTC (link)
That was painful to read. That is impressive heroism.

It has been frustrating me that I haven't seen any coverage or commentary on the Sri Lankan civil war, which turned very hot just after Israel attacked Gaza, but I had missed the assassination of Lasantha Wickrematunge entirely.

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[identity profile] badgerbag.livejournal.com
2009-01-14 07:33 am UTC (link)
I generally read little bits and pieces from Global Voices (http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/world/south-asia/sri-lanka/)... I don't know much about the situation there other than: civil war, awful for years.



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[identity profile] alephnul.livejournal.com
2009-01-14 08:31 am UTC (link)
I don't really know anything either, but I caught a fragment somewhere just after New Years about the Sinhalese government launching a major offensive into Tamil territory, and then a few days later a fragment about them seizing the Tamil capital, and I couldn't imagine either of those things happening without horrible loss of life, but since then I hadn't even seen fragments.

Thanks for the link to Global Voices.

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[identity profile] badgerbag.livejournal.com
2009-01-14 07:40 am UTC (link)
and here is lots of discussion from the paper he worked for, the Sri Lanka Sunday Leader.

"unbowed and unafraid"

http://www.thesundayleader.lk/20090111/home.htm

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[identity profile] jambery.livejournal.com
2009-01-14 05:31 pm UTC (link)
Wow, that was extraordinary. There's no other word for it. Thank you for sharing this with us.

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