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Sri Lanka: Endangered Media

Saturday, January 10th, 2009 @ 02:18 UTC

by Rezwan

Countries:: Sri Lanka
Topics:: Human Rights, Law, War & Conflict
Languages:: English

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Indi.ca asserts that the Sri Lankan Media needs security and “at some point journalists may have to just learn how to defend themselves“.

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