How The East Was Won – Watch the Al-Jazeera documentary

29 Aug, 2007 Batticaloa, Human Rights, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

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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  1. groundviews
    August 29, 2007 • 5:36 pm

    Nalaka Gunewardene’s review on this documentary can be found here.

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  2. groundviews
    October 8, 2007 • 8:32 am

    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/

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Located at the Centre for Policy Alternatives in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Groundviews is a citizen journalism website that uses a range of genres and media to highlight critical perspectives on governance, reconciliation, human rights, the arts and literature, democracy and other issues. The site has won two international awards, including the prestigious Manthan Award South Asia in 2009. The grand jury's evaluation of the site noted, "What no media dares to report, Groundviews publicly exposes. It's a new age media for a new Sri Lanka... Free media at it's very best!"

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