Freelance journalist, Sampath Lakmal de Silva, is abducted and later murdered, south of Colombo. He is the first Sinhalese journalist to be murdered in eight years (the recent journalists murdered have all been Tamil).
Source
Monthly Bulletin, International Federation of Journalists, 7 July 2006.
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