R. Sampanthan, the face of Sri Lanka's Tamil minority and its struggle post-civil war, dies at 91
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Rajavarothiyam Sampanthan, a senior ethnic Tamil leader and lawmaker, who became the face of the minority community’s campaign for autonomy in Sri Lanka since the end of a brutal quarter-century civil war, has died