How The East Was Won – Watch the Al-Jazeera documentary
Groundviews was the first to review the new Al-Jazeera documentaries on Sri Lanka (Mistaking Night for Day in the New Dawn of the East: A Review Article of the al-Jazeera Documentaries, ‘How the East was Won’ and ‘Monks of War’).
You can now watch this documentary online. See the Groundviews video channel for Al-Jazeera’s previous videos on Sri Lanka (including a previous People Power documentary titled Tiger Tax – Part 1 and Part 2) and more.
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Nalaka Gunewardene’s review on this documentary can be found here.
Nalaka Gunewardene’s review, pointed to earlier, now includes some excellent comments by Juliana Rufus who comprehensively counters the Nalaka’s essential criticism of the programme. Click here to access this interesting conversation – http://movingimages.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/al-jazeera-international-looking-hard-for-the-promised-difference/