Prominent Tamil journalist slain near Sri Lankan capital

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A top Tamil journalist

whose articles favored the mainstream Tamil Tiger rebels over a breakaway

faction was fatally shot hours after being seized by attackers at a restaurant

in the capital, police and colleagues said Friday.

Dharmeratnam Sivaram, 46,

a board member of the pro-rebel TamilNet Web site and a columnist for Sri

Lanka's English newspaper the Daily Mirror, was abducted by four unidentified

men at the restaurant in Colombo late Thursday and taken away in a jeep,

witnesses said on condition of anonymity.

His body was found

Friday with gunshot wounds to the head in a shrub near a lake, police officer Ashoka

Gunasekara said. A colleague and family members confirmed the identity of the

body, which was gagged with a red-and-white napkin.

No one claimed

responsibility for the killing.

" We got an

anonymous call saying a body was lying by the lake, " said H.A. Somaratne,

a police officer at the scene. A spent cartridge from a 9 mm pistol was found

near Sivaram's body in Talangama, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) outside Colombo.

In a statement, the

government condemned the killing and ordered an investigation, vowing to

capture the perpetrators.

http://asia.news./050429/ap/d89p0u6g1.html

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