Bland evasion

IN Media Watch Briefs | 31/07/2008

The media minister of Sri Lanka, Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, came to be chief guest at the opening of the South Asian Free Media Association conference on media in conflict situations, held on the eve of SAARC in Columbo. As he sat impassively at the dias, a SAFMA delegate read out a long list of atrocities committed by the Government and others on the media in Sri Lanka. When the minister¿s turn to speak came he made a long, bland, constructive speech about media in the region, proposed a South Asian news agency, said nothing at all about the charges that had just been levied, and went his way.

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