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Sri Lanka: Government urged to punish violence against independent media outlets after new attack
Sources News Release
http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR133.htm
Date Written: 06/01/2009
Year Published: 2009
Resource Type: Article
A pre-dawn attack by a dozen heavily-armed men that badly damaged the studios of the Maharaja Television/Broadcasting Network (MTV/MBC) in Pannipitiya, near Colombo, after charges that the networkâ##s reporting was not â#opatrioticâ## enough.
Abstract: Reporters Without Borders strongly condemned todayâ##s pre-dawn attack by a dozen heavily-armed men that badly damaged the studios of the Maharaja Television/Broadcasting Network (MTV/MBC) in Pannipitiya, near Colombo, after charges that the networkâ##s reporting of the war between the government and Tamil insurgents was not â#opatrioticâ## enough.
â#oViolence and threats against such privately-owned media outlets and journalists trying to impartially report on the conflict must stop,â## the ...
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