Summary
According to the local media watchdog, Free Media Movement, twelve journalists have been killed since 2005 - many close to high security zones and military checkpoints - and at least half a dozen are languishing in prison under the country's draconian Emergency Regulations. Justice, and pragmatism, will require the government to abandon its attachment to the 'unitary' state and develop a package of constitutional reforms that will offer Tamils real rights and an effective share in power. [...] that happens, victory on the battlefield will remain hollow; an aggrieved minority at home and an embittered diaspora abroad will ensure continued support for non-state actors.
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Tiger Cull
cIVILIANS ARE PAYING A HEAVY PRICE AS ONE of the world's most violent civil wars reaches a bloody denouement in Sri Lanka. Thousands of non combatants trapped between the army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) attempt to flee for their lives from an increasingly shrinking conflict zone in the country's north which w...
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