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The Office of the Lanka newspaper is sealed on Court orders. It is accused of publishing anti state false reports. The CID conducted inquires with attempts made by the newspaper to create a wrong impression among the public, by publishing various baseless and unfounded reports. As such the CID made submissions to the judiciary. Accordingly the office of the newspaper in Nugegoda was sealed yesterday. The current status of the inquiry is to be taken up for discussion in Courts tomorrow.
Veteran political analyst Dayan Jayatilake has emphasized that the sole desire of Tamil National Alliance is to rout President Rajapaksa at the elections with the aim of resurrecting the LTTE. This is the reason they are supporting the Opposition candidate. Joining in the Round table discussion telecast over Prime TV, he said The TNA has not yet said a word of criticism against the tigers. They know that during the war it was virtually a proxy for the LTTE. He said he had yet to hear the TNA say that any solution to the Tamil question in Sri Lanka has to be within Sri Lanka as one country. The LTTE has been defeated on the soil of this island. But he said that they saw in Geneva 200000 people demonstrating under the LTTE banner, Others demonstrated in Toronto. So the global tiger network is very much intact. And they want to win politically what they had lost militarily. The respected newspaper The Independent London ran a story by a British journalist and its title was Tigers throw weight behind General who crushed them. This is not what the Government of Sri Lanka or a Sinhala Organisation or Douglas Devananda said. It has been stated by the Inddependent UK newspaper. Dr. Jayatilleke added that the tigers want President Rajapaksa defeated and the only way to do it was for the Opposition candidate to win.
A statement made by the Opposition candidate to the Sunday Leader newspaper yesterday has plunged the entire Armed Forces into chaos. He has stated that many terrorist leaders were not permitted to surrender and that the Defence Secretary had given instructions to the war heroes to kill them. It is the opinion of not only the opinion of the armed forces but the nation that this is a despicable betrayal of the entire forces. In a hurriedly summoned news briefing today, the Opposition candidate had said that the statement made by him had been interpreted. However, inquiries were made from Fredrica Jansz, journalist of the Sunday Leader newspaper. She said that the Opposition candidate had not denied the report made in the newspaper. zipcodelookup.me http timezonesmap.org http couponscodes.org http
Investigate Killing of Prominent Journalist (New York, January 8, 2009) The killing of a prominent newspaper editor today and the bombing of a private television station on January 6, 2009, highlight the Sri Lankan government's failure to stop violence against the media, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said. The groups said that past investigations into attacks on journalists have led nowhere, and that the government should act quickly to bring the perpetrators of the attacks to justice. Unidentified armed men in close proximity to a security forces checkpoint shot Sunday Leader newspaper editor Lasantha Wickremetunga, a senior journalist acclaimed for his investigative reporting, during his morning drive to work in Colombo today. He died shortly after. On January 6, a dozen heavily armed men badly damaged the studios of the private Maharaja Television station on the outskirts of Colombo by detonating Claymore landmines and grenades. "The fact that these attacks were carried out in broad daylight against vocal critics of the government without any arrests or law enforcement action adds to the climate of impunity in Sri Lanka," said Roger Normand, Asia-Pacific Director at the ICJ. "The government must not only condemn these heinous acts, but take effective measures to bring the perpetrators to justice." Wickremetunga's in-depth investigations into corruption and nepotism in the Sri Lankan government frequently made him the target of ...
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The Canadian National Post newspaper has said that the Nobel Peace Prize should have been given to President Rajapaksa and not Barack Obama. Columnist Jonathan Kay said he was still trying to figure out as to why the Nobel Committee gave Barack Obama its annual peace prize. What seems clear from all this bafflegab is that Mr. Obama is being given this award for mere words. As such he queried as to who should have been awarded the peace prize. Instead of droning on about Hope and A New International Climate , a group of people charged with awarding the peace prize might find it useful to focus on a more mundane and obvious inquiry. To wit: what part of the planet was beset by bloody war in 2008, but is now entirely at peace. The only nation that fits the bill is Sri Lanka. The reason is that the Sri Lankan President ended terrorism definitively at one stroke. It is one of the only times in the history of modern warfare that a terrorist movement has been utterly destroyed in such a fashion. Jonathan Kay also queried as to whether it does not sound a pretty good candidate for a peace prize.
The Canadian National Post newspaper has said that the Nobel Peace Prize should have been given to President Rajapaksa and not Barack Obama. Columnist Jonathan Kay said he was still trying to figure out as to why the Nobel Committee gave Barack Obama its annual peace prize. What seems clear from all this bafflegab is that Mr. Obama is being given this award for mere words. As such he queried as to who should have been awarded the peace prize. Instead of droning on about Hope and A New International Climate , a group of people charged with awarding the peace prize might find it useful to focus on a more mundane and obvious inquiry. To wit: what part of the planet was beset by bloody war in 2008, but is now entirely at peace. The only nation that fits the bill is Sri Lanka. The reason is that the Sri Lankan President ended terrorism definitively at one stroke. It is one of the only times in the history of modern warfare that a terrorist movement has been utterly destroyed in such a fashion. Jonathan Kay also queried as to whether it does not sound a pretty good candidate for a peace prize.
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned a 20-year jail term against senior Sri Lankan journalist JS Tissainayagam as "brutal and inhumane" and accused Sri Lankan authorities of abusing anti-terror laws to silence peaceful critics. The High Court of Colombo today convicted Tissainayagam, a prominent Tamil journalist, of "causing communal disharmony" and "receiving money from Tamil Tiger rebels to pay for his website". He was detained last year and later charged with inciting violence in articles in his magazine, the North Eastern Monthly, which has since closed. The landmark ruling makes Tissainayagam one of a handful of journalists in the world to be convicted of terrorism for the content of their journalism. "This man has been victimised for no more than holding the Government to account and giving voice to legitimate if critical opinion," IFJ General Secretary Aidan White said. "The sentence is disproportionate, brutal and inhumane and is a chilling reminder of how dangerous Sri Lanka has become for independent journalists." The IFJ is one of the international press freedom and rights groups that have been campaigning for Tissainayagam's release and for Sri Lanka to tone down anti-terrorism legislation which is being used against government critics. On March 7, 2008, Tissainayagam was detained without charge by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) of the Sri Lankan police. At the time he was the editor of an online newspaper, OutReach.sl ...
A Sri Lankan Tamil, with links with the LTTE, who was on the run in India for 18 years has been apprehended. The Special Crimes Branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation arrested John Prabhakaran who had been wanted in two fake passport cases. The Times of India newspaper said CBI sleuths arrested him from Chennai. Two charge sheets have been filed against him. According to CBI sources, he had entered into a criminal conspiracy and obtained passports in the names of fictitious persons. Prabhakaran had then manipulated the particulars in the original passports and substituted photographs in these passports for later use. He had been providing fake passports to his associates for illegal migration when the movements of Sri Lankan Tamils were monitored closely by Indian authorities following the murder of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The suspect Prabhakaran had been operating from Chennai and also from other parts of Tamil Nadu with a strong network in Sri Lanka.
The Sri Lankan Government has long tried to portray the Sri Lankan civil war as a Government campaign against terrorism but the truth is that the Sri Lankan Government has carefully engineered the Genocide of Tamils on the island. Beneath the veneer of a picture postcard image of Sri Lanka that the government provides, lies a country that has increasingly become a brutal society in which the fundamental rights of Tamil people are denied. These human rights abuses against Tamils are committed by the Government of Sri Lanka. On the 18th of May, the war in Sri Lanka ended but the suffering of the Tamils continues in the Government Welfare Camps which are more similar to the Nazi Concentration Camps during the Holocaust, than Welfare Camps. During the war without witnesses, the Sri Lankan Army used illegal weapons, deprived innocent Tamil civilians of food and medicine; and bombed government assigned safety zones. Currently, nearly 300, 000 Internally Displaced Peoples are trapped in barbed-wired internment camps without access to food, medicine and water. Reports of sexual harassment including raping of young women by the military personnel and torture and killings continue to emerge rapidly from these IDP camps. There are continued reports of extra-judicial executions and forced "disappearances," and the fate of thousands of disappeared Tamils remains unknown. On May 7th, reports emerged of over 13000 Tamil youth that went missing from these camps. There are over 80000 ...
French charity demands probe into SLanka killings (AFP) COLOMBO — French charity Action Against Hunger (ACF) on Saturday demanded an international probe into the massacre of 17 of its Sri Lankan employees after a government investigation failed to identify suspects. The ACF in a statement accused the Sri Lankan authorities of lacking the will to find those responsible for the deaths in the northeastern town of Muttur in August 2006. "One cannot but notice that these procedures have failed, and that the Sri Lankan government obviously lacks will to establish the truth," the statement said. "Action Against Hunger reiterates its call, notably to the European Union, to constitute an internationalised inquiry into this massacre." The statement came after a Sri Lankan investigation cleared the military of killing the 17 employees of the charity and ordered more compensation for the families of the victims. The Commission of Inquiry in its final report to President Mahinda Rajapakse said neither the army nor the navy was present in the area as alleged when the massacre took place, two privately-run newspapers said this week. Thirteen men and four women who worked on water sanitation and farm projects for ACF were found shot dead in an area where government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels were locked in combat. Nordic peace monitors at the time blamed the killings -- the worst attack on aid workers since the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad in August 2003 -- on government ...
The UN downplayed Tamil civilian casualties during Sri Lankas recent offensive against the Tamil Tigers to keep peace with the government and maintain UN operations in the country, according to a French news daily. The United Nations deliberately downplayed the number of civilians killed during the Sri Lankan government offensive against the Tamil Tigers, according to a report in a leading French daily. The report, which was published Thursday in the newspaper Le Monde, quotes several unnamed UN sources alleging that high-ranking UN officials, including Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, chose to keep silent about the high civilian death toll in order to maintain UN operations in the country and avoid slighting the Sri Lankan government. Speaking to FRANCE 24 from Sri Lanka, Philippe Bolopion, who wrote the piece in Le Monde, said he did not believe the downplayed figures were due to institutional incompetence. I would say their moral compass might have gone wrong, said Bolopion, referring to senior UN officials. The most important thing for them was to stay in the country. Source : France24
20000 Tamil civilians massacred by Sri Lanka The Times www.tamilnet.com www.timesonline.co.uk Evidence gathered by The Times newspaper has revealed that at least 20000 Tamil people were killed on the Mullaitivu beach by Sri Lanka Army shelling. Aerial photographs, official documents, witness accounts and expert testimony collected by the newspaper present clear evidence of an atrocity that comes close to matching Srebrenica, Darfur and other massacres of civilians, the papers editorial says. Confidential UN documents acquired by The Times record nearly 7000 civilian deaths in the no-fire zone up to the end of April. UN sources said that the toll then surged, with an average of 1000 civilians killed each day until May 19.
AlJazeera by Lal Wickrematunge - Roxana Saberi - Posted: Tuesday , May 12, 2009 www.indianexpress.com The war in Sri Lanka has reached a decisive stage, as far as the fate of the trapped civilians is concerned. The hold that the LTTE had geographically has eroded so much and so extensively that it now appears that it would be impossible for them to make a comeback. The issues that remain can be whittled down to two in number: first, how the trapped civilian population can be evacuated with the least possible casualties; and second, the fate of Velupillai Prabhakaran. Both issues, while of great moment, are confined to, and will play out in, a small swathe of land in the north-east of the country. Yet there is another war being fought within Sri Lanka, one that continues to be kept on the boil: the war on dissent and freedom of expression. Even as the Sri Lankan Tri-forces took the battle into the heartland of the LTTE, the political administration under President Rajapakse moved swiftly to clinically excise alternative ideas emanating from within the free press and the electronic media. In any case, the state already controls most of the print and electronic media through a judicious mixture of ownership and patronage. The remnants of the private media have felt the heat of an ever-present possibility and threat — control through coercion and direct attacks. The organised manner in which these have been carried out, the impunity with which they have been conducted, have ...
Times OnlineCongress in coalition talks after decisive win in Indian electionsTimes Online, UK“The people have spoken and spoken decisively: voting out confusion, voting in clarity, voting out schism, voting in development,” the newspaper said. “2009 may just be the beginning of India's century — a year when India dumps its old baggage and ...
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Sunday Times.lkColumns - Political ColumnSunday Times.lk, Sri LankaA NRK press release that appeared in the Norway Post newspaper quotes Erik Solheim, Norwegian Minister of the Environment and International Development, as saying "a humanitarian ceasefire in Sri Lanka must be put in place as soon as possible in order ...Last batch of Tiger cadres boxed by advancing troops: Tiger leader ... Sunday Observerall 3,683 news articles
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Sunday Times.lkManik the maverick and ISunday Times.lk, Sri LankaAs for the inscription in his copy of the book, I knew it was time to acknowledge that I would probably never have arrived in Sri Lanka if not for him: my destiny played out elsewhere and almost certainly less fulfilled. And I had to express thanks for ...
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On LankaMORE THAN 5000 TAMIL CIVILIANS ESCAPE WHILE ARMY REPORTS HUGE ...On Lanka, Sri Lanka... the Sri Lanka security forces , army sources revealed. Meanwhile the Daily Telegraph newspaper of London said, “If this terrible episode is drawing to a close, with the final defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels, that is wholeheartedly to be welcomed. ...
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American ChronicleNATO Humiliates Somalia´s TFG, Sheikh Sharif by Letting Murder ...American Chronicle, CAAkio Yonago's 36-foot sailboat, the Emu II, may have been one of two vessels recently captured off the Seychelles, friends in the Seychelles and a US newspaper reported. According to statements from the Seychelles the sailor was guiding on 28th April ...
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Bleacher ReportToronto Maple Leafs Vs Hamilton Tigers and Tamil TigersBleacher Report, CAHamilton's biggest newspaper has already named the team the Tigers, after an NHL team that played in the city in the 1920s. The original Hamilton Tigers became the New York Rangers. The current Phoenix Coyotes could become the new Hamilton Tigers. ...
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Telegraph.co.ukWhy don't we care about Sri Lanka?Telegraph.co.uk, United KingdomIt is partly the absence of first-person newspaper reports and independent television footage, which has stopped the world's public from seeing the suffering with their own eyes. Instead the reality of life inside the cruelly-named 'no-fire zone' is ...Hundreds killed in Sri Lanka 'bloodbath' ReutersUN mourns Sri Lanka "bloodbath" Ghana Broadcasting CorporationHundreds killed in Sri Lanka "bloodbath" Clackamas Reviewall 7,852 news articles
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Sport GrimsbySolid display from Wood at PriorySport Grimsby, UKKelsey's Sri Lankan opener Chandi Wathukarage scored an undefeated 66 as Lol Waghorn's team took less than 18 overs to sew up the maximum 20 points on offer. Patrick Hughes' 103 took the eye in second-placed Cleethorpes 2nds' home win over ...
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Sport GrimsbyMorgan century in vain for LouthSport Grimsby, UKWhile Sleaford are still awaiting the arrival of their overseas player, Sri Lankan Dammika Gunawardena, Grimsby - for whom Dammika played two years ago - have welcome his fellow countryman Gihan Perara who turned out for the team having only arrived on ...
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Ceylon Daily NewsMiliband - the man who loves controversiesCeylon Daily News, Sri LankaBefore making his comments on policy towards Sri Lanka's internal issues Mr. Miliband would do well to ponder some wise advice from a great predecessor. Lord Salisbury, Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister in the days of the British Empire, ...
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Rediff'The BJP will be secular if it gets 170 seats'Rediff, IndiaIt will help him get some newspaper space, that's all. In the election, he may be able to gather crowds. You mean a politician has to have balanced views. Even if he loses his balance, it must be a calculated loss of balance. It cannot be wild. ...
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World Socialist Web SiteSri Lanka: Arrested Tamil editor speaks to the WSWSWorld Socialist Web Site, MIBy Nanda Wickremasinghe N. Vithyatharan, chief editor of the Tamil newspaper Sudar Oli, was released from detention on April 28, four days after police admitted in court that there were no grounds to charge him. His treatment further exposes the ...
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AFPIndia's Rahul Gandhi: dynastic political heritageAFPRajiv too was assassinated -- by a Sri Lankan Tamil separatist suicide bomber. In 2004, the tragedy-studded family announced Rahul would enter politics, even though his sister Priyanka, 37, who resembles her strong-featured grandmother Indira, ...
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DAWN.comPak cricket needs resilience to brave adversityDAWN.com, PakistanAnd for us there is a constant reminder of this at every step of our life and through newspaper notices of some of the moving obituaries which we come across every day. Funny enough one such obituary written in a London newspaper, The Sporting Times in ...
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Ceylon Daily NewsABC de Silva passes awayCeylon Daily News, Sri LankaBe began his career as the editor of Sri Lanka's first cinema newspaper Mela and later functioned as editor of the SLFP's official newspaper Dinakara and also at Eththa, Dinaresa and Siri Laka. He is the father of media personality AB Lalith de Silva. ...
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Government of Sri Lanka is a standing rock for the barking dogs. Supporting the LTTE terrorists can be subject to criminal prosecution still, legislators, heads of states and institutes including media, HRW, ICRC, CIA, and FBI whom we believe are guardians of democracy are on a war with Government of Sri Lanka to protect the most ruthless and number 1 terrorist group, LTTE. EU, USA and the rest of the west have thrown laws and codes to garbage to protect the most ruthless terrorists in the world. Civilized societies misguided with distorted news against the Government Sri Lanka who is engaged destroying cannibals who butchered Sri Lankan civilians for the last 26 yrs. CODE OF ETHICS FOR JOURNALISTS ------Seek Truth and Report it------ Journalists should be honest, fair and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information. Journalists should: — Test the accuracy of information from all sources and exercise care to avoid inadvertent error. Deliberate distortion is never permissible. — Diligently seek out subjects of news stories to give them the opportunity to respond to allegations of wrongdoing. — Identify sources whenever feasible. The public is entitled to as much information as possible on sources' reliability. — Always question sources motives before promising anonymity. Clarify conditions attached to any promise made in exchange for information. Keep promises. — Make certain that headlines, news teases and promotional material, photos, video, audio ...
Ceylon Daily NewsLake House stands unrivalled amidst stiff competitionCeylon Daily News, Sri LankaPicture by Gamini Ramanayake "Lake House is the bastion of newspaper organisations in Sri Lanka and this newspaper house stands unrivalled even in the midst of stiff competitions from other newcomers in the field," the Mahanayake Thera said. The Ven. ...
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Spin-a-war: how international media spin feeds a civil war in Sri Lanka ----------------------------- Liberation Tigers of Tamil-Elam in Sri-Lanka are about to be wiped out by the state army. The end of the long-fought civil war is in sight. But victory may not come so easily as international media joins the game. Its April 2009 and the government armed forces of Sri Lanka are about to finish off the Liberation Tigers of Tamil-Elam (LTTE). The end of one more long-fought civil war is in ...
The Langar HallSlaughter in Sri Lanka and MIAThe Langar Hall, CANow, a representative for the Sri Lankan Navy has made statements to a Sri Lankan newspaper about how these supplies may in fact be intended for the Tigers themselves and how the country's Navy will fire on any unauthorized vessel entering the ...Jonathan Kay on the legacy of Neelan Tiruchelvam: The Tamil Tigers ... National PostINDIA'S NATIONAL MAGAZINE The HinduTime to Speak Out: Bring the Perpetrators of Genocide to Justice ... TamilEelamNews.comSINDH TODAYall 2,283 news articles
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Sunday Leader (registration)Upali Tennakoon - slashed with a knife, The swollen, bruised face ...Sunday Leader (registration), Sri Lanka... Lalith Alahakoon from Sri Lanka's mission in Islamabad within days of being appointed. Alahakoon, a veteran journalist counting nearly three decades in journalism was virtually forced out of his newspaper when he was not assigned any duties, ...
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Nation on SundayUNP poll-axed by UPFANation on Sunday, Sri LankaAlready, they have attacked the Sri Lankan and Indian High Commissions in London. They first attacked and damaged the Sri Lankan Embassy in Oslo and then, attacked the Consul General's office in Toronto. Several business places owned by Sri Lankans in ...
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confused and angry at the international response to their progress. Sri Lanka has been fighting the Tamil Tigers for over 30 years. The Tigers pioneered the modern use of suicide bombing and have killed thousands of civilians. A US government expert on the group tells us that the Tigers are "one of the most odious insurgent groups around, and for a long stretch of time had more suicide attacks than the rest of the world combined. It has made a cult of martyrdom and violated every single ...
World's largest hostage rescue mission defence.lk www.fbi.gov The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, one of the world's most violent terrorist outfits, are surrounded in northern Sri Lanka and about to be destroyed - but Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and European self-styled peacemakers are getting in the way of victory. The meddlers should let Colombo finish off this menace. In desperation, the Tamil Tigers are using tens of thousands of locals as human shields. The Sri Lankan government declared a cease-fire and called on the Tigers to release their hostages, but unmanned-aerial-vehicle video footage shows the terrorists holding masses of innocents at gunpoint, refusing them freedom. Last week, Mrs. Clinton played into the hands of the terrorists by blaming the Sri Lankan government for the crisis. "The entire world is very disappointed" that they were "causing such untold suffering," she said. Foreign governments and aid organizations are calling on Colombo to cease operations, fearing that further action will lead to a humanitarian calamity. Norwegian Environment Minister Eric Solheim has been the point man in trying to negotiate a new truce, but he has been denounced by both sides. In response to his unwelcome efforts, the Nation, a Sri Lankan newspaper, editorialized that "the caravan of military operations has to move on. The time has come to tell the salmon-eating international busybodies to mind their own business." The Sri Lankan government is ...
A documentary following the assassination of high-profile journalist Dharmeratnam Sivaram, by Arthur Rhodes and Shaun Kadlec. Taraki, aka Dharmeratnam Sivaram, is without exaggeration, probably the best journalist on the Sri Lankan conflict, past or present. As a precocious youngster, he intellectually sparred with his university professors. His philosophical mind was astounding. His career is unique to us because he had served as a fighter in one of the fledgling Tamil militias fighting against the Sinhalese-dominated SL govt.'s forces in the first few years after Black July 83. His reason to fight was, in addition to a love for his Thamil people and land, including his native Batticaloa, a strong belief that education did no one any good if without its praxis. The educated of society, he felt, had an obligation to help people with their knowledge, not isolated in ivory towers and limited by governing power structures. His years of experience in the traditional Tamil lands in the North and East of SL, combined with his intellect, his fearlessness in doing on-the-ground reporting to obtain the truth despite the known constant risk to his life, and his ability to interact with ordinary people from all backgrounds, all combined to make for a special career in journalism. Through his work, he sought to do what he couldn't in fighting after being disabled -- empower the ordinary people to be able to create needed change in their lives. His work sought to expose the politico ...
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