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Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge 11 Feb2009
Sonali and Lasantha Wickrematunge on their wedding day
Widow of Sri Lankan journaliston her husband’s death.

Sri Lankan journalist, Lasantha Wickrematunge paid no attention when he was sent a death threat daubed in red paint on a page of his own newspaper. He said that he was used to such intimidation and appeared to ignore it. Then on Thursday 8th January he was killed as he drove to work. His wife Sonali later discovered that her husband had written an editorial foretelling his death, saying that the government would have a hand in his still-to-be-committed murder. Sonali published his work in the Sri Lankan “Sunday Leader,” the paper that Lasantha had edited. She speaks to Jenni about her late husband and his desire to run what he claimed was an independent newspaper in a country that has been at civil war for almost 30 years.



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