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Visual Evidence I: Vitality, Value and Pitfall – Borella Junction, 24/25 July 1983
Michael Roberts, 29 October 2011 Pic by Chandragupta Amarasinghe The anti-Tamil pogrom of July 1983 in the southern reaches of Sri Lanka stirred me to the bone: generating anger and depression in alternate moods as I ruminated from a distance … Continue reading →
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“When Suffering becomes infotainment–just another commodity” — Susan Moeller
Two Reviews of Susan Moeller’s Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War, and Death (Routledge, 1999) 392 pp ONE by Carl Sessions Stepp in American Journalism Review Here’s one of the perverse conundrums of journalism: If you fail to … Continue reading →
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Reading “devastation”: Botham, CMJ, Ban Ki-Moon
Michael Roberts, 10 June 2011 Preamble: The seeds of this essay lodged in my mind in early March 2009 when still in Lanka after an email exchange with CMJ; but I was too busy to develop the idea till May. … Continue reading →
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Renton de Alwis on Channel 4’s One-sided Blindness
Renton de Alwis, Daily News, 22 June 2011 With the Channel 4 ‘spin’ of telecasting the ‘Killing Fields of Sri Lanka’ programme last week, we were once again reminded that relating only one side of the story can be as … Continue reading →
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A Missing Person in Sri Lanka: Heartfelt Issues & Ground Realities
Michael Roberts, Courtesy of Groundviews, where it appeared on Wednesday last When I was in Sri Lanka from mid-April to early June 2009 I was on holiday with my wife and not able to pursue investigations in any depth. In … Continue reading →
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Janaka Goonetileke’s Atapattu Walawwa
Hemantha Situge, courtesy of The Nation, 28 October 2012, where the title is “Enthusiasts’ Guide to unique Sri Lankan Real Estate“ Atapattu Walawwa, the residence of the Gooneratne and Dias Abeysinghe families, is a richly illustrated antiquarian miscellany on one … Continue reading →
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Tamil Protest being mounted near MCG with TRC support
Adam Shand, in The Australian, 26 December 2012, with a different title “Tamils take their cause to the Boxing Day Test” THE Sri Lankan cricket team faces up to 1000 protesters at Melbourne’s Boxing Day Test today amid claims by … Continue reading →
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Rohan Gunaratna in Q and A with Raisa Wickrematunge
Raisa Wickrematunge in The Sunday Leader, 5 June 2011 Professor Rohan Gunaratna is dubbed an international terrorism expert. Having written several books on Al-Qaeda and the LTTE, he is also the head of the International Centre for Political Violence and … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka’s Complex Background: Correcting & Amplifying Sheridan and Gotābhaya
Michael Roberts, … with highlighting emphasis in red now added Invited to Sri Lanka by the government Greg Sheridan, a senior journalist of conservative leanings in The Australian stable, brought together some of the themes pressed by the Defence Secretary … Continue reading →
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BBC-Blind: Misreading the Tamil Tiger Strategy of International Blackmail, 2008-13
Michael Roberts …… A version of this article was presented at the Narratives of War Symposium organized by the University of South Australia in Adelaide on 19-20 November 2013. This is an amplified version. In reviewing the conflict between the Sinhala-dominated … Continue reading →
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