The shooting death of an anti-government newspaper editor in Sri Lanka is the latest in a string of attacks on such journalists, an advocacy group said.
Lasantha Wickrematunga, editor of the Sunday Leader newspaper, was shot in the chest, head and abdomen while going to work Thursday, later dying in a Colombo hospital, Reporters without Borders said on its Web site.
"Sri Lanka has lost one of its more talented, courageous and iconoclastic journalists," the press freedom organization said. "President Mahinda Rajapaksa, his associates and the government media are directly to blame because they incited hatred against him and allowed an outrageous level of impunity to develop as regards violence against the press."
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