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The Sunday Leader was an English-language Sri Lankan weekly newspaper published by Leader Publications (Private) Limited. It was founded in 1994 and is published from Colombo . Its sister newspapers are the Iruresa ( Irudina ) and the defunct The Morning Leader .
- Easwaran Rutnam
- No. 24 Katukurunduwatte Road, Ratmalana, Sri Lanka
- 19 June 1994
- Leader Publications (Private) Limited
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Dec 27, 2012 · The Sunday Leader had been doing badly and the government had pressurised advertisers to withdraw from it. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa recently won a case against it and has two more pending. Fifteen...
Jan 12, 2009 · January 12, 2009. Last Thursday, Lasantha Wickramatunga, who was fifty-two years old and the editor of a Sri Lankan newspaper called the Sunday Leader, was assassinated on his way to work by two ...
Mar 28, 2023 · 28 Mar 2023| BY Shailendree Wickrama Adittiya. ‘Unbowed and Unafraid’ recounts life of slain journalist. Unbowed and Unafraid, the biography of slain Journalist and late Editor of The Sunday Leader, Lasantha Wickrematunge, was launched at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute yesterday (27).
Oct 17, 2012 · By Brian Senewiratne –. Dr. Brian Senewiratne. On Friday 21 September 2012 (another ‘black Friday’ [1] ), The Sunday Leader, the only newspaper critical of the Rajapaksa junta, was ‘killed’ (silenced), the ‘body’ quickly ‘cremated’ (handed over to one of Rajapaksa’s stooges), and the ‘ashes’ scattered in the President ...
The Sunday Leader exposed what no other Sri Lankan paper dared to: corruption, nepotism, demise of press freedom and freedom of speech, the dismantling of a so-called democracy and the implementation of a totalitarian state.
