Journalist Who Favored Tiger Rebels Is Slain
From Times Wire Reports
A top Sri Lankan journalist whose articles favored the established Tamil Tiger rebels over a breakaway faction was fatally shot after attackers seized him at a restaurant in the capital, Colombo, police and colleagues said.
Dharmeratnam Sivaram, 46, an ethnic Tamil columnist for the Daily Mirror newspaper and board member of the pro-rebel TamilNet website, was abducted by four unidentified men late Thursday and taken away in a jeep, witnesses said. No one claimed responsibility.
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