SELECT distinct(d.iddocumento), d.* from documenti d JOIN destinazionidocumenti dd ON (d.iddocumento = dd.iddocumento) WHERE d.idtipodocumento = 1 AND d.idlanguage = 7 AND d.status = 3 ORDER BY d.datains DESC, d.rilevanza DESC LIMIT 6 SELECT distinct(d.iddocumento), d.* from documenti d JOIN destinazionidocumenti dd ON (d.iddocumento = dd.iddocumento) WHERE d.idtipodocumento = 1 AND d.idlanguage = 7 AND d.status = 3 AND dd.iddocumento not in (8301690) ORDER BY d.datains DESC, d.rilevanza DESC LIMIT 6 SRI LANKA. MINISTER CLEARED, FIVE CONDEMNED TO DEATH FOR ELECTION DAY KILLINGS

SRI LANKA. MINISTER CLEARED, FIVE CONDEMNED TO DEATH FOR ELECTION DAY KILLINGS

Those killed were escorting ballot boxes for counting

23 January 2006 :

Sri Lanka's High Court cleared a former deputy defence minister and his two sons over the killing of 10 men but handed down death penalties to five soldiers who were involved.
The three-judge bench found former minister Anuruddha Ratwatte and his sons not guilty of killing the 10 supporters of a rival political party on the day of parliamentary elections on December 5, 2001. 
The five condemned men, all soldiers who were providing security to Ratwatte, were also given 100-year jail terms for other charges of unlawful assembly, election violence and obstructing voters.
 
(Sources: TamilNet and Agence France Presse, 20/01/2006)

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