Oct 22, 2012
Our chair, Edward Mortimer, recently wrote this review for Global magazine: Still Counting the Dead Frances Harrison The enormity of what happened in Sri Lanka in 2009 is still far from being generally known or appreciated around the world. A conflict pitting...
Jul 9, 2012
“Every journalist has heard of Srebrenica. How many have heard of Mullivaikkal where just as many perished?” This is the sobering question that Frances Harrison, former BBC correspondent asks in her upcoming book “Still Counting the Dead”. In it the veteran...
Jun 12, 2012
The Government of Sri Lanka are masters at the art of intimidating their critics into silence. However, like most bullies, they tend to pick on those who find it difficult to fight back – either because they are currently living in Sri Lanka or because they have Sri...
Mar 19, 2012
Kutty, a young man in his early twenties, sustained multiple injuries during the war. While he was a patient in hospitals at Kilinochchi, Tharmapuram, Mungilaru, Puthukudiruppu, and Matalan, each of these hospitals came under attack, resulting in injuries and deaths...
Mar 18, 2012
Three women who spoke during a group discussion: Tavamani, Vasantharani, and Sarada. Tavamani: During the end of the war everyone was in the bunkers because there was so much shelling that we couldn’t come out. I heard children crying in the next bunker. Their mother...
