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Committee to Protect Journalists
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New York, NY 10001
Attack On Broadcaster Needs Independent Inquiry
New York, January 6, 2009—Following today’s early morning assault by about 15 masked gunmen on Maharaja TV’s (MTV) studios outside the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, the Committee to Protect Journalists called for an independent, nonpartisan parliamentary board of inquiry to investigate.
Attackers shot at and destroyed broadcast equipment, held staff at gunpoint, (...)