Business Prospects after the War

Ajit Gunawardene, Deputy Chairman of John Keells Holdings talks to Bloomberg TV on the business prospects of a post-war Sri Lanka.

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Conflict Watch, Sri Lanka — Assorted Links

We found the following, interesting..

• Pakistan and Sri Lanka, a Tale of Two Counterinsurgencies  (NYT Blog)
• UN says International scrutiny needed in Sri Lanka (Relif Web)
• LTTE is using India, like Taliban is using Pakistan. (TOI news report) and the report by stratfor, a private intelligence agency on the Tigers.
• Fighting Terrorism at a too high price — Arvind Adiga (The Daily Beast)
• Life as a female Tamil Tiger guerilla relived by one of first female soldiers (Telegrapgh)
• M.I.A. calls on Oprah to highlight the plight of SL Tamils. (Village Voice , her own blog post)
• Vanni Emergency Situation — OCHA Report

More links we have missed? Put them up in comments.

Journalists Flee Sri Lanka

LakbimwaNews have details about the journalists who have fled the country due to the climate of fear. Among them are some of Sri Lanka’s top columnists and media personalities. The report is as follows:

Four more journalists have fled the country last week fearing for their lives. They are Sanath Balasuriya and Poddala Jayantha of Lake House, Sunanda Deshapriya and Uvindu Kurukulasuriya of the Free Media Movement.
Last week Upul Joseph Fernando of the Lankadeepa, Rathnapala Gamage of Lankadeepa, and Chevan Daniel of MTV left the country. 
In addition, Iqbal Athas, Keith Noyahr, Namal Perera and Anuruddha Lokuhappuarachchi had already left the country. 

Threats against the media from unidentified armed elements have increased dramatically after the killing of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunge. Now the latest attack on the editor of the Rivira newspaper and chairman of the Editor’s Guild of Sri Lanka, Upali Tennakoon and his wife on January 23 at Imbulgoda, in Gampaha has driven a sense of fear into journalists who now fear for their lives. 

Police have so far been unable to arrest anyone in connection with these attacks. 

Chief Government Whip, Dinesh Gunawardena told parliament that from January 01 2006 upto now, nine journalists had been killed and 27 others had been assaulted. Minister Dinesh Gunawardena also said that five journalists had been kidnapped. Four of them have been released. (emphasis added)

The AFP also has a report. We thank the blog Thoughts of a Pessimist for the pointer. Comments on the matter are open. In Mutiny values your views.