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8 January 2008

Issues: Assassinations, Colombo, LTTE attacks | 595 views | by pact team

The Minister for Nation Building, D.M. Dissanayake, is killed in a suspected LTTE claymore mine attack of his convoy of vehicles in the Jah-Ela area, outside Colombo. The assassination is the first successful assassination of a top Sri Lankan official in 19 months.

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Sri Lankan minister killed by bomb, The Guardian, 8 January 2008; Sri Lankan minister dies in blast, BBC news, 8 January 2008

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