Turn Out The Lights
While civil war has disrupted peace in Sri Lanka, a media blackout prevents much of the outside world from understanding or intervening in the alleged human rights violations.
by Archana Jayakumar
| As the quality of life for many Americans is quickly deteriorating with the failing national and world economies, it becomes even more difficult to look beyond our own endeavors to the even greater struggles that other countries face. Many Americans do not see exactly what is happening in other parts of the world, and that is partially because American media sources, and others are not receiving the story as a whole. In recent news, the American media has finally begun to unfold the events of the past two and a half decades in Sri Lanka. Unfortunately, this information is not complete. The Sri Lankan government issued a media blackout, which allows the government to sift through information before it is released to national or international agencies. The world is only privy to the information that the government wants to share. Senior finance major Milan Kanagathayalan believes that “the international community should try to solve this problem as an international issue because Tamil people [of Sri Lanka] are living in almost every county in the world as refugees of the war.” |
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