Recently in Sri Lanka Category

By Bob Dietz/Asia Program Coordinator CPJ.org

It was good to hear Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa point out in his Independence Day speech on Thursday that the country "cannot be developed with harassment, gross punishments or by the gun." But the sentence that followed that--"Discipline is not revenge"--gives cause for concern. Rajapaksa's speech marked the 62nd anniversary of the country's independence from Britain. It was delivered in Kandy, the heartland of the president's electoral base.