Blog posts tagged "Sri Lanka"

March 28, 2012 10:21 am 38 Comments

Amid the sweat, the heat, and the romance of this colonial ground, cricket has ensured that a whole world of sport is absorbed in a game, whilst the fate of up to 40,000 civilians slaughtered on fields on the very same island lie unaddressed and largely unmentioned.

June 14, 2011 7:03 am 392 Comments

"It represents not only the evidence required to convict, but a first ever testament in the digital age to the dawning truth that in this age it is becoming close to impossible for warring forces to cover up what they have done."

June 6, 2011 7:02 am 45 Comments

Jon Snow looks at events around the world - the good news and the bad.

February 5, 2010 9:50 am 15 Comments

Jon Snow writes how a loophole could protect countries with something to hide as Channel 4 News emerges from a storm that law Sri Lanka bypass British libel law.

May 19, 2009 9:51 am 10 Comments

spent yesterday afternoon in the environs of the House of Commons. An extraordinary experience. Normally, ostentatiously crawling with MPs and peers anxious to be recognised, stopped and interviewed – yesterday the place was completely deserted.