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Sri Lanka’s Information War: Part II

Sri Lanka’s Information War: Part II

Second of a three-part series. Click here to read Part I.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- No one understands the importance of Sri Lanka's information war quite like N. Vithyatharan, an editor whose two Tamil-language newspapers -- one in the northern peninsula of Jaffna, the other in Colombo -- are "continuously targeted by pro-government forces." Vithyatharan is a small man with a listing walk that suggests heavy burdens.

During a visit to his Colombo office, he related how in May 2006, on the night before international press freedom day, five masked gunmen shot up the Jaffna compound of the newspaper there, the Uthayan.

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