BBC banned from reporting for the 3rd time
December 31, 2010 Comments Off on BBC banned from reporting for the 3rd time
BBC – Sri Lanka bans BBC again from war inquiry panel
The BBC has been banned for a third time from covering an official panel’s investigation into the final phase of the Sri Lankan civil war.
The panel visited Tamil prisoners at a top-security jail in Boosa in the south of the country.
But the BBC correspondent and a number of Sri Lankan journalists were turned away at the prison gates.
The 26-year conflict ended in May last year with victory for government forces over the Tamil Tiger separatists.
History repeats as Tamil is again forbidden
December 29, 2010 Comments Off on History repeats as Tamil is again forbidden
BBC (28/12) – Sri Lanka Tamil national anthem row reignites
Tamil politicians in Sri Lanka have criticised a decision to make school children in the northern town of Jaffna sing the national anthem in Sinhala.
They say it is “totally wrong” to make people sing in Sinhala when people in the north and east mostly speak Tamil.
Earlier this month, a Tamil minister in the Sri Lankan cabinet denied reports that the Tamil version of the anthem had been abolished.
More on SL Camps: "Deeply Distressing"
October 9, 2009 Comments Off on More on SL Camps: "Deeply Distressing"
Sri Lanka refugees plead for freedom
Rapidly built up for the Tamil refugee influx last spring, Menik Farm has pylons, banks, even cash machines – and thousands upon thousands of tents in the cleared arid lands west of Vavuniya in northern Sri Lanka.
Since my earlier visit in April, the camp has swollen to cover some 10 zones, the number of camp-dwellers has ballooned to a quarter of a million, while over 20,000 have been resettled or more informally released, the government says.
This was the BBC’s first chance to view all this infrastructure close-up.
Distressing conversations
A government intensely sensitive to outside criticism or suggestions, and wary of any outsider’s intentions in wanting to visit the camps, was now giving the BBC admittance, alongside the UK’s Development Minister, Mike Foster. That in itself seemed like notable progress.
And yet, just five minutes of conversation with the camp-dwellers was deeply distressing.
Starting by talking to us through our car-window, women, one after the other, piled on tales of hopelessness in the Tamil language.
This article appeared in Sri Lankan media. Please note we cannot verify the independence of the information in this report.
Lanka News Web – Tamils make history at the UK Labour Party Conference
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BBC : The end of the civil war in Sri Lanka?
April 25, 2009 Comments Off on BBC : The end of the civil war in Sri Lanka?
BBC World Have Your Say : The end of the civil war in Sri Lanka?
Gotabaya Rajapakse
March 15, 2009 Comments Off on Gotabaya Rajapakse
For those who watched SBS Dateline today and are curious to see more of Gotabaya Rajapakse see below
Forum about SL held in London
February 26, 2009 Comments Off on Forum about SL held in London
Reactive Media Talk: Sri Lanka – a hollow victory?
Chaired by Priyath Liyanage (BBC) Frances Harrison (journalist) Charu Lata Hogg (Human Rights Watch) Pearl Thevanayagam (Tamil journalist) Raj Jayadevan (Alliance for Peace and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka) Lal Wickrematunge (Sunday Leader, Sri Lanka) by phone