Underreported Sri Lankan conflict deadlier than Afghan war
Time Magazine Online in a recent special report states that judging by the death toll the Sri Lankan conflict is deadlier than the war in Afghanistan in the year 2008.
[pic appearing on Time online by: Ishara F. Kodikara-AFP]
Ranking as the # 3 Underreported News of the year, The Time magazine said:
In January the Sri Lankan government pulled out of its shaky 2002 cease-fire agreement with the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in an official nod to the fact that the country is once again engaged in civil war. Deadlier this year than the fighting in Afghanistan, the combat has raged largely under the radar because the government has banned from the war zone foreign journalists as well as most aid groups, which is bad news for the 300,000 Sri Lankans who have been forced out of their homes.
Time online's List of Top 10 Underreported News Stories:
1) The Pentagon's latest nuclear snafu
2) Civil war displaces a million Congolese
3) Sri Lankan conflict deadlier this year than Afghanistan
4) A victory for mental-health advocates
5) Genetically modified meat: coming soon to a grocer near you?
6) Southern Baptists decide against pedophilia database
7) More Mexican immigrants move home
8) A gap in genetic nondiscrimination law
9) U. S. ships sand from Kuwait to Idaho
10) Venezuela's potty-mouth President