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SRI LANKA: Journalists Laying Aside Pens Once Again
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - Sri Lankan journalists are laying aside their pens once again and bracing for renewed confrontation with President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government after the revival of the repressive Press Council and fresh attacks on the media.
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RIGHTS: Sri Lankan Journalists Face Severe Persecution
By Marina Litvinsky
WASHINGTON - At least 11 Sri Lankan journalists were driven into exile in the past 12 months amid an intensive government crackdown on critical reporters and editors, said a new survey from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released Wednesday.
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SRI LANKA: Will Tamils Have A Say In Reconstruction?
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - For people in Sri Lanka’s war-torn North, for many years life has meant virtually living out of a suitcase while moving from place to place to escape the rigours of war and bloody combat.
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SRI LANKA: Preparing For a New Chapter of Development
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - As Sri Lanka prepares for a new chapter of development after ending nearly three decades of conflict, ecologists among other experts here are calling for a ‘green’ revolution against the usual foreign investment, private sector-driven type of progress.
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SRI LANKA: What’s Next For the Tamil Community?
By IPS Correspondents
COLOMBO - Nearly three decades of war ended in Sri Lanka last week and a victorious President Mahinda Rajapaksa has extended a fresh hand of friendship to the minority Tamils, but most members of this community feel it will take a long time for the wounds to heal after years of mistrust and alienation.
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SRI LANKA: Trade Partners Considering Economic Pressure
By Nuwan Perera
COLOMBO - The United States, joined by the UK, France and other EU states, are stepping up economic pressure on Sri Lanka to stop killing of civilians during ongoing battles with Tamil guerrillas in the North. The countries are planning on using a proposed IMF bailout package and trade concessions as bargaining tools.
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SRI LANKA: Intl Condemnation Mounts, Along With Body Count
By Lydia Zemke
UNITED NATIONS - As the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka takes a turn for the worse, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is sending one of his most senior officials to take stock of the situation in the war zone, where hundreds of civilians are being killed both by government and rebel forces.
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SRI LANKA: Unions Strike Landmark Deal to Protect Migrant Workers
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - Trade unions from Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait came together with their Sri Lankan counterparts here to strike an unprecedented agreement on the welfare of migrant workers.
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SRI LANKA: In Honour of Slain Editor, They Keep Writing
By IPS Correspondents
COLOMBO - At the end of the long editorial room of ‘The Sunday Leader’ hangs a large sketch of Lasantha Wickrematunge, the late editor of the newspaper, who was assassinated on Jan. 7. He was shot in his car, just five minutes from his office.
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RIGHTS: Recruiters of Child Soldiers Defy U.N. Pressure
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations remains virtually helpless as an increasing number of armed groups - described as "non-state actors" - continue to exploit, abuse and deliberately harm children in battle zones in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
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SRI LANKA: Media Kept on Tight Leash
By IPS Correspondents
COLOMBO - As the latest round of Asia’s longest-running guerrilla war winds down, scores of journalists here are experiencing intimidation and harassment for being critical of the military campaign against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
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DEVELOPMENT: Asian NGOs Must Lead in Asia
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - In a spirit of South-South Cooperation Asian NGOs must take the lead from international and western NGOs working in war-torn Sri Lanka and across Asia, as they understand the local dynamics and culture much more deeply than anyone else, an experienced Asian NGO leader told IPS.
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SRI LANKA: Economic Crisis Ramping Up, As War Winds Down
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - Government troops are closing in on the last remnants of Tamil Tiger resistance in northern Sri Lanka as an upsurge of more that two years of fighting winds down. But, the country’s economic woes aren’t over. More and more pressure it being put on President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s cash-strapped administration.
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As the Sri Lankan army pushes deep into rebel territory, the government claims that the island nation's quarter century ethnic war is now heading for a decisive showdown. The government has vowed to obliterate the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who have been fighting to create a separate Tamil homeland in the north and east of the island. As Sri Lanka slips deeper into the chasm of war, IPS brings you incisive reports from this tear-shaped island.