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point you out…90 percent of people there would want to see you dead…they will kill you.” He went on to scream at her, "You are a f.... pig who eats shit," repeatedly. She printed the full transcript of his tirade under the headline “Gota Goes
Berserk.” Jansz said that the article caused “a huge backlash against him” for which he reportedly “would never forgive” her. “People were saying there was a good chance I was going to go the same way as Lasantha had. The writing was on the wall.” After she ran the story, she “was followed by motorbikes” and “received death threats.” The groups
191:, "shared a similar psychological profile to that of the leader of the Tigers (a sworn enemy)." In the winter of 2010, “Jansz interviewed the opposition candidate” in the presidential elections, “a former army commander in the Sri Lankan army,” who confirmed rumours “that the army had shot a group of Tamil Tiger rebel leaders as they attempted to surrender at the end of the war.” When Jansz ran the story, it led to the opposition’s election loss, thus making the newspaper “an enemy out of both the government and the opposition.”
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225:. He bought the paper with financial help from the government. According to Jansz, Seneviratne asked her stop publishing articles critical of the Sri Lankan government and the Rajapaksa family. She refused, and on 21 September 2012 she was sacked as editor. She was replaced by Sakuntala Perera. "The new management appointed a new editor even as I was sitting in the office," Jansz said in July 2013. Seneviratne disputed Jansz’s account of her dismissal.
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to become its editor in
January 2009 following the assassination of editor-in-chief Lasantha Wickrematunge, under whom she had trained. Wickrematunge "was ambushed by men on motorbikes who shot him through the head." Like Wickrematunge, Jansz received threats due to her work, including death threats.
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was plotting to assassinate Jansz. Jansz was threatened and insulted by
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to resettle in
Australia, citing death threats. Her application was turned down in October 2012 "on the grounds that she was not out of Sri Lanka at the time of making the claim." The US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, however, “befriended Jansz and gave her and her sons entry into the United States.” The
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November 2012 she said that she would never return to Sri Lanka. "There's no going back for me, absolutely not. I feel lucky that I got out of this alive." In June 2013 Jansz said that it gave her "terrible pain" to think about Sri Lanka. "It's the mundane things that I miss—I dream of this one
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In 2012, Jansz learned that
Rajapaksa had arranged for Sri Lankan Airlines to bump a flightload of passengers, in order to transport a puppy from Switzerland to Sri Lanka for his wife. When Jansz called for his comment he said angrily: “If you and I were at the same function together and I were to
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In 2014, she moved to
Seattle, and enrolled at the Art Institute of Seattle (AIS). She majored in Applied Arts and Interior Design, graduating in 2017. She has since worked in both residential and commercial interior design. In an interview with David Blair, of
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sandy, gravel road in Sri Lanka. I desperately miss my home. I loved my country and I never wanted to leave, but I had to force myself to put it all behind me….As long as I look back, I cannot move forward. And every day, I get a little stronger."
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