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Deathly Silence

“Much of the media has been bought, or cajoled and bullied into silence. Dozens of journalists are dead and others have been incarcerated without trial for months. Who then survives to provide the public with a contrarian view?”

—Lasantha Wickramatunga (1956-2009), editor, The Sunday Leader, Colombo, Sri Lanka, was assassinated four days after writing this editorial 1/4/09.
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