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Heavy price: Sri Lankan journalist Sinnadurai Thiruchelvam refused to stop writing about his country's civil war so assassins put a bullet through his 19-year-old son's head
Heavy price: Sri Lankan journalist Sinnadurai Thiruchelvam refused to stop writing about his country's civil war so assassins put a bullet through his 19-year-old son's head

Heavy price: Sri Lankan journalist Sinnadurai Thiruchelvam refused to stop writing about his country's civil war so assassins put a bullet through his 19-year-old son's head

Date8/17/1989
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0134783F
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