· March, 2007

Stories about Sri Lanka from March, 2007

Sri Lanka: The minorities and Muslims

  5 March 2007

groundviews on the impact of the ethnic conflict on the Muslims in Sri Lanka. “If you were to go by the international headlines, the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict appears to engage only the two main communities, the Sinhalese and the Tamils. Yet when the conflict exploded into war in 1983,...

Sri Lanka: Why is Child Sexual Abuse not a problem?

  5 March 2007

Manshark's Random Rants finds that Child Sexual Abuse Tourism is still not seen as a serious problem in Sri Lanka. “People are still, on the whole, unaware of the problem or are happy to look sad to 2 seconds when the topic comes up before moving on to “let’s talk...

Sri Lanka: Hate and Harm

  1 March 2007

groundviews on the politics of hate and harm. “Most readers in Colombo would have seen the posters of the National Movement Against Terrorism (NMAT) calling for the peace, media and leftist ‘Tigers’ to be identified and destroyed. This columnist was asked to comment on the poster by a newspaper and...