Far from here, and far from ignorant half-wits like Samuel Wurtzelbacher aka “Joe the Self-Promoter”, Lasantha Wickrematunge, a highly respected journalist and editor, was gunned down on the streets of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo by a pair of assassins on a motorbike. Wickrematunge wasn’t far from his home when he was approached sometime between 10 and 11 [...]
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Courage In An Age of Tyranny
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