The Guardian, 19 January 2009
Ethnic nationalism has a quasi-religious appeal, and in times of conflict the state may be treated as a god “Electronic and print-media institutions have been burnt, bombed, sealed and coerced. Countless journalists have been harassed, threatened and killed. It has been my honour to belong to all those categories and now especially the last.â€
So wrote Lasantha Wickramatunga, in a chillingly powerful editorial published after his death. The editor of the (...)