18 Jan 2011
By Ranga Sirilal
COLOMBO, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Several hundred Sri Lankan journalists, opposition politicians and supporters marched peacefully in the capital on Tuesday to demand justice for attacks, killings, and disappearances of media workers, and criticised the government for failing to find the perpetrators.
Since the start of the final phase of a 25-year civil war in 2006, at least 14 journalists have been killed and many more attacked or threatened in the Indian Ocean island nation.
Those include the murder of pro-opposition editor Lasantha Wickramatunge in a high-security zone in January 2009, an arson attack at the private Maharaja Broadcasting Corporation in the same month, and the disappearance of journalist and cartoonist Prageeth Eknaligoda in January 2010.
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