And Then They Came for Me: Journalist Writes His Own Obituary and Is Assassinated Days Later
January 19th, 2009Via: The Sunday Leader:
No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay down their lives for their art save the armed forces and, in Sri Lanka, journalism. In the course of the past few years, the independent media have increasingly come under attack. Electronic and print-media institutions have been burnt, bombed, sealed and coerced. Countless journalists have been harassed, threatened and killed. It has been my honour to belong to all those categories and now especially the last.
New York Times: A Letter From the Grave
