Series of Cartoons May Have Led to Armed Attack on Sri Lankan Paper

You know you're talking about a different part of the world with different expectations for workplace violence when they wait until paragraph eight to mention the fact that the gunmen that shot up and wrecked a Sri Lankan newspaper office were not disgruntled workers with handguns but professional thugs with AK-47s or something close. This article provides a reasonably distanced but still passionate explanation of what may have happened in a violent tragedy that ended the lives of two people. This includes a lot of context as to how newspapers can serve various political factions and parties in the Tamil region.

The government official that was the target of the cartoons was Social Services minister and Eelam Peoples Democratic party Secretary General Douglas Devananda.
 
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