Sri Lanka pins hopes on idealist: President Kumaratunga reintroduces censorship on war news July 3, then prepares for new elections.(World)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: July 5, 2000 | Copyright information

Moments after she was the target of a suicide bomb attack last December, President Chandrika Kumaratunga made an entreaty: that there be no recrimination against the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka - whose extremists' attempt on her life left her with only one eye.

"The Tamil community must be protected," she said as aides rushed her to a hospital after the blast killed 14 people. "Our fight is not with them."

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