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Eastern Province Journalists' Association and Batticaloa Press Club led a memorial at the Batticaloa fallen journalists monument to commemorate TamilNet founder editor Dharmeratnam Sivaram (Taraki) abducted, killed and the body dumped in the suburbs of Sri Lanka's capital 21 years ago.
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