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The Sunday Leader Online
http://www.thesundayleader.lk/20090111/editorial-.htm

Leader Online
Striking editorial by murdered Sri Lankan journalist published posthumously.
An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge that was published after his assassination in which he spoke of...
No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay down their lives for their art save the armed forces and, in Sri Lanka, journalism. In the course of the past few years, the independent media have increasingly come under attack. Electronic and print-media institutions have been burnt, bombed, sealed and coerced. Countless journalists have been harassed, threatened and killed. It has been my honour to belong to all those categories and now especially the last.