Journalist Frances Harrison and Sri Lanka-born artist and novelist Roma Tearne discuss the horrors of conflict in Sri Lanka. Harrison worked in Asia for many years as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, including four years in Sri Lanka, and has also worked as head of news for Amnesty International. Her book, Still Counting the Dead, describes how Sri Lanka became a hell for the Tamil minority as decades of civil war reached a climax in 2009 and recounts many of the war crimes to a wider wor..
The long and violent Sri Lankan Tamil conflict had its most severe impact on its closest neighbour T...
Tens of thousands of civilians were killed in the final weeks of Sri Lanka's armed conflict in 2009....
Three years after the government of Sri Lanka declared an end to decades of civil conflict with sepa...
The tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it became a hell for its Ta...
Frances Harrison, journalist and author of Still Counting the Dead, and Niromi de Soyza, former chil...
"It's nonsense of course to talk about a diaspora as a coherent entity. It's made up of every shade ...
VAVUNIYA, 13 May 2015 (IRIN) - Almost six years after Sri Lanka’s bloody civil conflict came to an e...
Programme : 9h30 : accueil des participants 9h45-11h45 : Roma Tearne (romancière) et Frances Harri...
LSE will organize on Thursday 20 June 2013, from 6.30 to 8pm, a conference on "Sri Lanka and the cul...
Editor’s Note: Amrita Chandradas is a documentary photographer currently based in Singapore and work...
In May 2009, the surrender of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and death of LTTE leader,...
During the Sri Lankan civil war an international media ban meant the conflict was largely unrecorded...
Sri Lanka, a palm-fringed island in the Indian Ocean, is in the sixth year of peace. But as the coun...
Sri Lanka’s present is haunted by memories of the island’s decades-long civil war, which ended just ...
Many Sri Lankans do not recognise the extremist Bodu Bala Sena as embodying Buddhist values at all, ...
The long and violent Sri Lankan Tamil conflict had its most severe impact on its closest neighbour T...
Tens of thousands of civilians were killed in the final weeks of Sri Lanka's armed conflict in 2009....
Three years after the government of Sri Lanka declared an end to decades of civil conflict with sepa...
The tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it became a hell for its Ta...
Frances Harrison, journalist and author of Still Counting the Dead, and Niromi de Soyza, former chil...
"It's nonsense of course to talk about a diaspora as a coherent entity. It's made up of every shade ...
VAVUNIYA, 13 May 2015 (IRIN) - Almost six years after Sri Lanka’s bloody civil conflict came to an e...
Programme : 9h30 : accueil des participants 9h45-11h45 : Roma Tearne (romancière) et Frances Harri...
LSE will organize on Thursday 20 June 2013, from 6.30 to 8pm, a conference on "Sri Lanka and the cul...
Editor’s Note: Amrita Chandradas is a documentary photographer currently based in Singapore and work...
In May 2009, the surrender of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and death of LTTE leader,...
During the Sri Lankan civil war an international media ban meant the conflict was largely unrecorded...
Sri Lanka, a palm-fringed island in the Indian Ocean, is in the sixth year of peace. But as the coun...
Sri Lanka’s present is haunted by memories of the island’s decades-long civil war, which ended just ...
Many Sri Lankans do not recognise the extremist Bodu Bala Sena as embodying Buddhist values at all, ...
The long and violent Sri Lankan Tamil conflict had its most severe impact on its closest neighbour T...
Tens of thousands of civilians were killed in the final weeks of Sri Lanka's armed conflict in 2009....
Three years after the government of Sri Lanka declared an end to decades of civil conflict with sepa...