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Sri Lanka: "Wholesale attack on Jaffna newspapers", Tamilnet
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by Tamiya | June 24, 2009 at 09:30 pm
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According to sources of Tamilnet, the Sri Lankan security forces have deployed violence against the Tamil newspapers opearting in North part of the tamil regions in Sri Lanka.
Wholesale attack on Jaffna newspapers
All the local newspapers of Jaffna that defied publishing an anonymous and defiling notice against the LTTE came under attack by an armed group in the early hours of Thursday. The notice was brought out in the name of 'Tamil Front Protecting the Country' allegedly linked to a paramilitary group operating with Colombo. Thousands of copies of the local newspapers, Valampuri, Uthayan and Thinakkural (Jaffna edition), were burnt down wholesale in huge flames by the armed group allegedly operated by the Sri Lankan military intelligence at Aanaippanthi and Kannathiddi junctions at 5:00 a.m. Thursday, while the newspapers were being taken for distribution.
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at 22:51 on June 24th, 2009
Did Sri Lankan forces use cluster bombs and chemical weapons?
at 22:25 on June 25th, 2009
R u trying to crack a joke of the century or wat?????