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Writers Under Siege

Writers Under Siege

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Media and Communications, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith, Writers Under Siege

The Sacred and the Profane

“A tangle within, a tangle without…” Jata Sutta – Samyutta Nikaya In July 2020, Indika Rathnayake, a non-theistic online activist, was summoned to the Organised Crimes Prevention Police Division and questioned for three…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 01/22/202301/26/2023
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Writers Under Siege

Challenging Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists in Sri Lanka

Brief Many journalists have been killed and subjected to enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka, with the Jayewardene-Premadasa led UNP governments of 1977 to 1994 and Rajapaksa led UPFA government of 2006 to…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 11/02/202211/02/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Writers Under Siege

Sri Lankan Government Found Guilty of Lasantha’s Murder

Since 1992 at least 1,400 journalists have been killed for bringing reliable information to the public. These murders, and the subsequent impunity, are the ultimate consequence of a hostile environment for press…

Groundviews Groundviews on 09/20/202209/20/2022
Jaffna, Memorialisation, Moving Images, Transitional Justice, Writers Under Siege

The Brother Who Never Came Back: 15 Years Since the Disappearance of Subramaniam Ramachandran

“Even today I believe he will return but if he doesn’t, let him remain missing. If you want to report that he disappeared on the 15th, you can do that. We would…

Selvaraja Rajasegar Selvaraja Rajasegar on 02/16/202202/17/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Writers Under Siege

Challenging Impunity For Crimes Against Journalists

November 2 is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in 2020 at least 22 journalists were murdered in retaliation for…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 11/02/202111/02/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Writers Under Siege

Creating a Safer World for the Truth

Every week a journalist is killed. Killing the truth is the world’s safest crime; in eight out of ten cases the killers go free. Since 1992, more than 1,400 journalists have been killed around…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 11/02/202111/02/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Media and Communications, Politics and Governance, Writers Under Siege

Trying to Silence a Fearless Voice: The Case of Tharindu Jayawardhana

Tharindu Jayawardhana is one of Sri Lanka’s most outstanding and promising young journalists. His writings and MediaLK, the news website he founded in 2019, are noted for highlighting some of the most critical…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 07/19/202107/19/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Politics and Governance, Writers Under Siege

Past is Prologue for Sri Lanka’s Journalists

Photo courtesy of Centre for American Progress Terror tore through me when I heard that my friend and editor of the Nation newspaper Keith Noyahr had been abducted. It was May 2008; civil…

Dharisha Bastians Dharisha Bastians on 03/11/202103/12/2021
Gampaha, Human Rights, Media and Communications, Moneragala, Politics and Governance, Right to Information, Trincomalee, Writers Under Siege

October – A Bleak Month for Freedom of Expression

Today is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists October was a bleak month for freedom of expression with four cases of assault against five provincial journalists. All five…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 11/02/202011/02/2020
Human Rights, Issues, Media and Communications, Writers Under Siege

Continued impunity: Journalist killings unresolved in 2016

In 2016, Sri Lanka was removed from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Impunity Index. Each year, CPJ reviews countries for a 10-year period. If there are five or more unsolved cases, the…

Groundviews Groundviews on 11/02/201611/02/2016
Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Vavuniya, Writers Under Siege

Confessions

Stop this struggle He pleads Of his comrades A revolutionary leader Broken in pain In State Custody They set me on the wrong path He blames, pointing to his friends A young…

Mahesh Munasinghe Mahesh Munasinghe on 08/19/200903/08/2011
Colombo, Poetry, Vavuniya, Writers Under Siege

Beauty

What beauty in camps? I sit in my favourite chair listening to Beethoven’s last sonata, slient breezes in time. to the music. My world creates a sonata The other shatters all possibility…

Nazreen Philips Nazreen Philips on 07/06/200903/08/2011
Colombo, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Poetry, Post-War, Writers Under Siege

Liberation

You claimed to liberate hostages, to conduct the largest rescue operation in history. In other countries people robbed of freedoms, rescued, are treated by doctors, then sent home to be greeted usually…

Thiru Sambandar Thiru Sambandar on 07/03/200903/08/2011
Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Writers Under Siege

Belonging

The island belongs to centipede, rat, butterfly, lots of species each with their own habitats, and supervising all arable and fallow land the president king. Minorities may enjoy clean living in freshly…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 06/30/200903/08/2011
Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance, Trincomalee, Vavuniya, Writers Under Siege

Einstein was a Refugee

Refugees are sometimes active have agency they Leave, Flee, Sneak Flow over boundary lines unchecked like rivers they Escape, Hide Cross territories they Flood places like unnatural disasters are associated with Asylum…

Vivimarie VanderPoorten Vivimarie VanderPoorten on 04/05/200903/08/2011

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