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Sri Lankan government on journalist murder

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Sri Lanka's government has denied that it had anything to do with the killing of a prominent newspaper editor, Lasantha Wickramatunga, a critic of the government.

Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that the only thing the government had done was fight terror.

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