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Dying for Journalism: Lasantha Wickrematunge of Sri Lanka

By pearlaction | January 8, 2009 |

[ Time ] Lasantha Wickrematunge, one of Sri Lanka’s leading journalists, a freelance reporter for TIME and an outspoken critic of the Sri Lankan government, was shot this morning as he drove to work in Colombo, his country’s capital. He later died of his injuries. The attack, by two gunmen on motorcycles in the middle…

In Sri Lanka, Victory Brings Reprisal

By pearlaction | January 3, 2009 |

[ Time ] At Kollupitiya junction in the heart of Colombo Friday afternoon, the streets filled with confetti and bursts of firecrackers. Sri Lankans were celebrating their government’s claim that troops had captured Kilinochi, the administrative capital of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a separatist group that has waged a 25-year struggle for an…

3. Sri Lankan conflict deadlier this year than Afghanistan

By pearlaction | December 22, 2008 |

[ TIME ] In January the Sri Lankan government pulled out of its shaky 2002 cease-fire agreement with the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in an official nod to the fact that the country is once again engaged in civil war. Deadlier this year than the fighting in Afghanistan, the combat has raged largely…