Tim Large
Tim Large has been AlertNet's deputy editor since 2003. Prior to that, he was a correspondent with Reuters in Tokyo, a staff writer on a major Japanese daily and news editor of a popular science website. He has written widely on politics, economics, social issues and the arts. He is also a passionate photographer.
Sri Lanka rights activists face growing dangers
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By Farah Mihlar
Farah Mihlar works as media officer at Minority Rights Group International. She is a Sri Lankan activist and academic who has reported on the country's ethnic conflict for over a decade and is currently doing a PhD on religious fundamentalism in Muslim minority contexts.
In March Sri Lankan police used anti-terror laws to arrest and detain J.S. Tissanayagam, a prominent journalist working for The Sunday Times, a maistream English-language weekly. After two weeks behind bars he was finally served a detention order charging him with engaging in terrorist activities, which today in Sri Lanka can be interpreted as criticising the government.
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By Farah Mihlar
Farah Mihlar works as media officer at Minority Rights Group International. She is a Sri Lankan activist and academic who has reported on the country's ethnic conflict for over a decade and is currently doing a PhD on religious fundamentalism in Muslim minority contexts.
In March Sri Lankan police used anti-terror laws to arrest and detain J.S. Tissanayagam, a prominent journalist working for The Sunday Times, a maistream English-language weekly. After two weeks behind bars he was finally served a detention order charging him with engaging in terrorist activities, which today in Sri Lanka can be interpreted as criticising the government.
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Bangladesh cyclone homeless still await help
Author: Megan Rowling
Several weeks before the start of the monsoon season in Bangladesh, more than 260,000 families made homeless by Cyclone Sidr five months ago have yet to receive help to rebuild their houses, the Red Cross said on Monday.
The monster storm struck the southwestern coast in November, triggering a 5-metre (15-foot) storm surge. Flooding and high winds killed at least 4,400 people and wrecked nearly 1.5 million homes.
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Author: Megan Rowling
Several weeks before the start of the monsoon season in Bangladesh, more than 260,000 families made homeless by Cyclone Sidr five months ago have yet to receive help to rebuild their houses, the Red Cross said on Monday.
The monster storm struck the southwestern coast in November, triggering a 5-metre (15-foot) storm surge. Flooding and high winds killed at least 4,400 people and wrecked nearly 1.5 million homes.
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Questions still haunt Sri Lanka aid massacre
Author: Peter Apps
I remember the stench from the bloated corpses of the 17 dead Sri Lankan aid workers in the hospital and the cries of their families outside as I wondered if I had shaken the hands of their killers.
Last week, a local human rights group detailed the hours before and after the murder of local tsunami workers in August 2006 and I'm asking the same question again.
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Author: Peter Apps
I remember the stench from the bloated corpses of the 17 dead Sri Lankan aid workers in the hospital and the cries of their families outside as I wondered if I had shaken the hands of their killers.
Last week, a local human rights group detailed the hours before and after the murder of local tsunami workers in August 2006 and I'm asking the same question again.
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Why are tortillas now tied to oil prices?
Author: Tim Large
Global food prices are spiralling skyward.
From Cameroon to Mexico, riots have erupted as staples like rice and corn flour become unaffordable. In Pakistan, wheat flour prices have doubled. World soybean prices are at record highs.
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Author: Tim Large
Global food prices are spiralling skyward.
From Cameroon to Mexico, riots have erupted as staples like rice and corn flour become unaffordable. In Pakistan, wheat flour prices have doubled. World soybean prices are at record highs.
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Janjaweed leader says he got his orders from Khartoum
Author: Tim Large
Ever since Darfur hit the media radar in early 2004, Khartoum has been accused of backing Janjaweed militia in raping, looting, torching and mass-murdering in western Sudan.
The Sudanese government has always denied it. Khartoum says the militia forces drawn mainly from nomadic Arab tribes are bandits beyond the state's control.
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Author: Tim Large
Ever since Darfur hit the media radar in early 2004, Khartoum has been accused of backing Janjaweed militia in raping, looting, torching and mass-murdering in western Sudan.
The Sudanese government has always denied it. Khartoum says the militia forces drawn mainly from nomadic Arab tribes are bandits beyond the state's control.
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