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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Workers at Sri Lanka's state television channel fear they are being hunted. In the past two months, staff members have been stabbed, threatened and beaten up.
The violence has grown so bad that the president had to give employees at the station, Rupavahini Corp., a personal promise of protection to prevent a walkout that would have likely forced it off the air.
Employees say the attacks may be connected to a feud with a government minister. Media watchdog groups say they are part of a wave of intimidation against journalists that has grown as the civil war between Sri Lankan government forces and ethnic Tamil rebels escalated over the past two years.
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