The silence surrounding Sri Lanka

Boston Globe by Arundhati Roy | Mar. 31, 2009 (News Report)

THE HORROR that is unfolding in Sri Lanka becomes possible because of the silence that surrounds it. There is almost no reporting in the international press - or in the mainstream media in India, where I live - about what is happening. From the little information that is filtering through, it looks as though the Sri Lankan government is using the propaganda of "the war on terror" as a fig leaf to dismantle any semblance of democracy in the country and ... Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 1, 2009

Arundhati Roy has powerful insight and well voiced speeches. This article seems to be an awakening to another world tragedy unfolding, this time in Sri Lanka.

what is happening in Sri Lanka and is being so effectively hidden from public scrutiny – is a brazen, openly racist war.

The International Federation of Journalists accuses the government of Sri Lanka of using a combination of anti-terrorism laws, disappearances, and assassinations to silence journalists.

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