COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police on Tuesday exhumed the body of a prominent anti-establishment newspaper editor as part of an investigation into his murder, widely blamed on the regime of former strongman president Mahinda Rajapakse. Lasantha Wickrematunga was killed by gunmen in Colombo seven years ago.
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