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December 18, 2012, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) Consultations carried out by the
IFJ and its partners in recent months, suggest that media freedom is a
neglected dimension in Sri Lanka’s post-war politics. Within the wider
landscape of diminishing hopes, marked by the fading of early optimism of a peace
dividend accruing from the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war in May 2009, the
country’s media practitioners continue to face formidable difficulties. Overt
measures of coercion are less conspicuous than during the war years. But there
are fears that free speech is falling victim in a media environment in which
political and financial power is deployed to silence dissent.
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