1.0Committee to Protect Journalistshttps://cpj.orgCPJ Staffhttps://cpj.org/author/john/Attacks on the Press 2006: Sri Lanka - Committee to Protect Journalistsrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="su0L6r4bEa"><a href="https://cpj.org/2007/02/attacks-on-the-press-2006-sri-lanka/">Attacks on the Press 2006: Sri Lanka</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://cpj.org/2007/02/attacks-on-the-press-2006-sri-lanka/embed/#?secret=su0L6r4bEa" width="600" height="338" title="“Attacks on the Press 2006: Sri Lanka” — Committee to Protect Journalists" data-secret="su0L6r4bEa" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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SRI LANKA Hopes that the Sri Lankan government and Tamil rebels would be able to salvage their crumbling cease-fire were dashed in 2006. By September, the military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were again locked in combat in the north and east of the country. While the conflict looked similar to that…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cpj-logo.png24001260