Guardian.co.uk: Murdered Sri Lankan journalist predicts death in posthumous editorial
January 13th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Press freedom and ethics
In a posthumous editorial, murdered Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge foretells his own death and hints at how it will happen.
“When finally I am killed, it will be the government that kills me,” he wrote in the column, which was published just days after he was shot dead in the country’s capital, Colombo.
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February 10th, 2009 at 9:05 am
[...] “The tremendous wave of worldwide emotion that has been created by his death has embarrassed this nation. Whether his death will bring the liberty enjoyed elsewhere to this island, or whether it will slip further into repression, is yet to be seen,” writes Lal Wickrematunge, brother of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, who was murdered last month. [...]