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Frontline World: Sri Lanka: Living with Terror
This gripping episode chronicles an LTTE suicide bomber's attempt to assassinate the prime minister. Video journalist Joe Rubin reports from the grisly scene and examines the "violent yet beautiful world of Sri Lanka." The website offers an in-depth look at the making of a suicide bomber, a profile of UTHR member Rajan Hoole (see our interview with Hoole), an excerpt from Michael Ondaatje's 2000 book Anil's Ghost and much more. (May 2002)
Religion and Ethics Newsweekly: Sri Lanka Tsunami Relief
Approximately 31,000 Sri Lankans are thought to have died in the tsunami in December of 2004. Ten months later, reporter Fred de Sam Lazaro talks to survivors, aid volunteers, religious personnel and government administrators about the aftermath of the tsunami, and a nation's attempts to recover. (October 14, 2005)
Frontline World Rough Cut: Cursed by the Gods
In this online video report, Frontline World traveled to Sri Lanka's eastern coast, one of the areas most affected by the tsunami, to see how people are coping with twin disasters: the tsunami and a civil war that has wracked the country for decades. (July 5, 2005)
NPR Stories
Morning Edition: Truce Deteriorates in Sri Lanka
Correspondent Philip Reeves examines the escalation of violence in Sri Lanka at the end of 2005. (January 26, 2006)
All Things Considered: Rebels Eyed in Sri Lankan Official's Murder
In August of 2005, the Tamil Tigers assassinated Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar. Dumeetha Luthra of the BBC and New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch talk about why the Tigers killed Kadirgamar, who was a Tamil himself, and how the assassination might affect the volatile situation in Sri Lanka. (August 13, 2005)
Morning Edition: Tsunami Forces Sri Lanka Foes to Cooperate
In the aftermath of the December 2004 tsunami, the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan government were poised to reach a new agreement. Morning Edition reports on how the disaster broke down barriers between the Tamils and the Sinhalese in their cooperating aid efforts. (January 6, 2005)
Day To Day: Politics Complicate Sri Lanka Aid Efforts
Martin Regg Cohn, Asia correspondent for the Toronto Star, talks to NPR's Madeleine Brand about the immediate relief efforts after the tsunami, and how those efforts are complicated by the tensions between the Tamil Tigers and the government. (December 31, 2004)
News & Notes with Ed Gordon: 'Innocents Lost': Saving Child Soldiers
An interview with author Jimmie Briggs about his recent book on child soldiers. (August 9, 2005)
Day To Day: M.I.A: Activism with a DIY Hip-Hop Beat
Music critic Christian Bordal relates the inspirational story of M.I.A — a young hip-hop artist who grew up in Sri Lanka and South London. Her music bridges the gap between her war-torn past and her urban present. (March 17, 2005)
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