Attacks on media organisations, particularly the Tamil media and intimidation and harassment of journalists continue in Sri Lanka irrespective of assurance given by the police to find and punish perpetrators.
The attack on the Uthayan newspaper office is the fifth attack on the media in the north, since January and the second after the United Nations passed a resolution on March 21 calling on the government to address human rights violations.
India today disapproved of a top Sri Lankan official's reported remark about it regarding terrorism in that country, saying the armed conflict there was a result of Colombo denying rights to Tamils there.
Responding to Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa's reported remark that India could never absolve itself of the responsibility for creating terrorism in his country, Union Minister V Narayanasamy said the statement was not acceptable.
According to new research published by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), low income countries like Malawi and Madagascar and lower middle income Guatemala, are leading the charge against hunger and undernutrition, whilst economic powerhouses such as India and Nigeria are failing some of their most vulnerable citizens.
