- 20 August 2019
Fare thee well Jean, the snow white Rose from the hills!
We sit in your quiet hallway; introducing ourselves to the curious you. I look deep into the eyes that have seen uncounted pasts of numerous lamenting souls put kibosh on to the bleeding soil of a failed land. The eyes.........
- 05 November 2018
Impunity Island: Sri Lanka's "predator emeritus" on rebound
Many local journalists feel discomfort when they hear the name Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He is seen as a ruthless person, who was behind the murder wave that took the lives of their colleagues. They see it as unthinkable to contact him and ask critical questions. The few....
- 23 October 2014
Sri Lanka's Secrets: How the Rajapaksa regime gets away with murder
Sometimes you come across a book that kicks so hard in the stomach that you simply become numb. ‘Sri Lanka’s Secrets’ is such a book. Although travel agencies depict the tropical island country to be one of Asia's most exciting........
- 17 November 2013
Jonathan Miller writes an open letter to Sri Lankan journalists
I definitely detected a delicious sense of schadenfreude from among you brave – but mischievous - Sri Lankan journalists, over the relentless harassment of me and my Channel 4 colleagues by state intelligence police and immigration officers. I’m not referring to the ranting rottweiler
- 02 November 2018
Impunity Island: Sri Lanka's haunting legacy of war on media
A lot can happen in the time between the World Press Freedom Day, May 3, to the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, November 2. Will the prospects for justice in Sri Lanka completely........
- 13 December 2013
Sri Lanka: The subversion of independent thinking
The Sri Lanka government is intent on controlling freedom of thought by expelling foreign passport holders who visit the country and later attend seminars or give press interviews on subjects the regime considers taboo. On November 23......
- 21 September 2013
Media censorship is part of a bigger strategy
I worked with Lasantha at the Sunday Leader between 1999 and 2002. It is tragic that media censorship and political oppression against which Lasantha struggled valiantly then, and for which he died in 2009, persist four years..............
