Six months after the Sunday Leader editor was slain, Uvindu Kurukulasuriya looks at increasing state control of Sri Lankan media Not long before Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunga was killed six months ago, his brother Lal, chairman of...
The reintroduction of the government-run press council is another marker of the decline of Sri Lanka's democracy, says Uvindu Kurukulasuriya "Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets" ---Napoleon Bonaparte The guns are...
Sri Lanka's reporters are constantly at the mercy of the whims of the country's powerful elite, says Uvindu Kurukulasuriya Lasantha Wickrematunga faced his last moments at an unusual time at an unusual place. From the moment he left home the day he...