Strife-Torn Sri Lanka to Ban TV Sex, Violence
<i> Reuters</i>
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka —
This country, where more than 15,000 people have died in six years of ethnic turmoil, said it will ban sex and violence from state-owned television next year, a deputy minister said Friday.
“Many programs we have now come from the West and are not suitable to our culture,” A.J. Ranasinghe, State Minister for Information, said at a news conference.
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