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Church condemns 'cowardly' killing of Sri Lanka priest

Hundreds of people have attended the funeral of a Roman Catholic priest active in campaigning for human rights in Sri Lanka, who was killed in a bomb blast, reports Ecumenical News International. The priest, the Rev. Mariampillai Xavier Karunaratnam, died when a roadside bomb exploded as he was driving home after conducting Mass on 20 April in Sri Lanka's northern Vanni region. This area of the country is under the control of rebels seeking autonomy for Tamil-majority areas in the north and east of the island. The priest died just days after he released a report calling for the United Nations to monitor human rights violations in Sri Lanka, and following, as the report put it, a "series of mass murders and disappearances of Tamil people".

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[04/24/2008]

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