Sri Lanka genocide story draws 22 million visitors, says Argentine paper

The Spanish Language Diario La Tarde, an evening journal published by independent journalists in West Argentina said the recent web publication of the story “Genocidio: (Primera entrega) – La masacre de los Tamils en Sri Lanka,” [Genocide: (First Delivery) The Slaughter of Tamils in Sri Lanka] drew 22 million visits in two days. The story appearing in Spanish covers history to the conflict, the slaughter at Mu’l'livaaykkaal, and asserts the post-conflict miliary aggression in Tamil areas as a form of structural genocide…….. read more

By Dr. Arujuna Sivananthan

‘It’s the economy stupid’ was the popular phrase publicised widely by the Bill Clinton team during the Presidential elections campaign of 1992.

George Bush Sr running for a second term was seen as a sure winner then because of developments like the end of the cold war and the US gulf war victory. But the Clinton campaign focused on the recession and projected Clinton as a better choice because Bush had not adequately addressed economic issues……….. read more

Given the media monitoring below, all government owned print media (and also pro-government print media like the Island newspaper) the day after the Indian FM’s press conference sought to downplay the President’s avowed commitment to go beyond the 13th Amendment. In some newspapers, there was simply no reportage on this vital pronouncement at all. For the Editors of the state owned Daily News and Dinamina and the privately owned yet pro-government Island  for example, the President’s commitment to go beyond the 13th Amendment is a non-issue, or perhaps more accurately, so much of an issue that they seek to erase it from the front pages of their newspapers!

Out of sight, out of mind is the government media’s mantra to deal with the 13th Amendment, and going beyond it. Could it also be this government’s real take on it?…..….. read more