Subash Chandraboas

Year: 2007

Nationality: Sri Lanka

Killed by: Political Group

Location: Vavuniya, Sri Lanka

Press organization: Nilam

What's Subash Chandraboas's story?

Chandraboas, 32, editor of a small Tamil-language monthly magazine, Nilam (The Ground), was shot to death at around 7:30 p.m. near his home in the government-controlled town of Thoanikkal, near Vavuniya in ethnically Tamil Sri Lanka. His 8-year-old daughter told CPJ that the assassins spoke in Tamil and Sinhalese.

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