I read with great interest
this article in the Guardian about nearly quarter of men in Asia-Pacific admitting to committing rape according to a new UN study. As Sri Lanka was one of the countries that were a part of the study I looked around a little more and came across a few articles in the local media that had run with the title “14% of Sri Lankan men admit to rape”. It seemed that most mainstream print media, including
Daily Mirror and
Ceylon Todayhad taken the article straight from the
BBC and to my surprise not followed up with this horrific statistic,
