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TAMIL journalists in Sri Lanka were issued with death threats on Thursday in leaflets posted under the door of their office.
Threatening leaflets were left at the Batticaloa Press Club in Sri Lanka’s eastern province as journalists gathered there for a meeting, according to activist Ruki Fernando.
Photographs of those targeted were printed on the leaflets which read: “Warning! Warning! These are the foreign tiger-funded reporters opposing the Sri Lankan government. They will soon be given death punishment by us.”
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
