Continuing the Struggle

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Her husband, editor of a newspaper in Sri Lanka, was fatally attacked. Now in exile in New York City, Sonali Samarasinghe presses forward with their fight for press freedom and justice in their native country. Posted: Friday, May 20 2011
By Gena Chung
Gena Chung (genakchung@hotmail.com), a writer based in Washington, D.C., is a graduate student at the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland Tsunami aid misappropriation. Abuse of government power. Corporate fraud. These are the types of stories to which award-winning investigative journalist and newspaper editor Sonali Samarasinghe gravitated. When she won the Global Shining Light Award at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in 2008, it cited "her work to reveal misuse of power and corruption in Sri Lanka." But there was one story for which she was completely unprepared. Continuing the Struggl Full Story>>>
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At UN on Sri Lanka, Ban's Inaction on Report Contrasted With Rwanda Mapping

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, May 20 -- When the UN Panel of Experts recommended to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that he establish an investigative mechanism for war crimes in Sri Lanka, Ban responded that he'd only do so upon a vote of one of the UN's three “inter-governmental bodies.” Full Story>>>