16 April 2007
Subash Chandraboas
Shooting
Subash Chandraboas, 32, editor of the Tamil monthly Nilam, was gunned down at his residence in Vavuniya.
Chandraboas also freelanced for other publications. The report on the killing comes after an editor from a national daily said she received a death threat from Sri Lanka's defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse, a charge denied by him. Although there is no formal censorship imposed, Sri Lankan authorities prevent journalists from travelling to areas held by rebels, who are waging a separatist conflict that has killed more than 60,000 people since 1972.
