Richard Huzzey

Daily View 2×2: 10 July 2009

By | Fri 10th July 2009 - 9:01 am

Two Big Stories

The Times has reports of a humanitarian disaster unfolding in Tamil refugee camps:

About 1,400 people are dying every week at the giant Manik Farm internment camp set up in Sri Lanka to detain Tamil refugees from the nation’s bloody civil war, senior international aid sources have told The Times.

The death toll will add to concerns that the Sri Lankan Government has failed to halt a humanitarian catastrophe after announcing victory over the Tamil Tiger terrorist organisation in May. It may also lend credence to allegations that the Government, which has termed the internment sites “welfare villages”, has actually constructed concentration camps to house 300,000 people.

In Britain, it’s day two of revelations about The News of the World, with the Guardian naming two new celebrities whose phones were tapped. Despite the decision by Yates of the Yard to avoid new criminal proceedings, many victims seem sure to pursue the newspaper in the courts.

Two Must-read Blog Posts

Andy at Wouldn’t It Be Scarier? reflects on the experience of charity phone calling, in light of media reports a Lib Dem PPC berated Cowley Street for phoning her.

Stuart Syveret, a Jersey Senator, was the focus of Jonathan Calder’s sympathy yesterday,

A democratically elected politician arrested and charged for something he wrote on his blog. Surely it could only happen in a tinpot dictatorship?

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2 Comments

  • Biodiesel 10th Jul '09 - 10:12am

    The situation in Sri Lanka is a humanitarian disgrace. The Times is doing a great service still covering the Tamil tragedy in these camps when other papers have moved on to more parochial issues.
    Alan Bullion – Author of India, Sri Lanka and the Tamil Crisis

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