Comments on: Towards True Freedom of Expression https://groundviews.org/2016/05/06/towards-true-freedom-of-expression/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=towards-true-freedom-of-expression Journalism for Citizens Mon, 09 May 2016 08:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: puniselva https://groundviews.org/2016/05/06/towards-true-freedom-of-expression/#comment-60770 Mon, 09 May 2016 08:27:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=19535#comment-60770 In reply to puniselva.

When NGOs arranged the meeting of Tamils and Sinhalese afterCFA was announced in Feb 2002, Sinhalese found out that their media did not report the damage the state armed forces were doing in the North.

]]> By: puniselva https://groundviews.org/2016/05/06/towards-true-freedom-of-expression/#comment-60769 Sun, 08 May 2016 15:08:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=19535#comment-60769 ”Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, commenting on this, added that it was ‘an unpleasant truth’ that the people of the South didn’t care about the plight of Tamil journalists, seeing them as different”:

Not only about the plight of Tamil journalists but also about ordinary Tamils!
Engish dailies in Colombo didn’t report about the protest by Sinhalese in front of Opposition Leader’s office/residence. But they reported Sumanthiran’s interview on that protest.
English dailies in Colombo don’t report the building of Buddha statues/viharas by Buddhist monks and the army – they’re going on right now.
They don’t report what the army does to the Tamils in the North:
Sri Lanka military enrol pre-school Tamil children in Vanni, 2 May 2016,
http://www.tamilguardian.com/article.asp?articleid=17840
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