Relangi Selvarajah

Year: 2005

Nationality: Sri Lanka

Killed by: Political Group

Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka

Press organization: Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corp.

What's Relangi Selvarajah's story?

Popular Tamil broadcaster Relangi Selvarajah and her husband, apolitical activist, were killed by unidentified gunmen in Colombo onthe same day that Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lanka’s foreign minister,was assassinated. Political leaders blamed the rebel Liberation Tigersof Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for all three killings, charges the LTTE denied.

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