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Centre for Policy Alternatives on 6 August, 2009

The growing censorship in Sri Lanka

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Article on the censorship in post-war Sri Lanka by Sanjana Hattotuwa, published in Montage, August 2009.

The growing censorship in Sri Lanka

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