Kevin, you may think of yours as the new age kind of journalism. As much as every journalist likes to be in the spotlight, each and everyone of us has to act with a certain sence of responsibility. These responsibilities seem to have been lost on you. There comes a time when you conscience catches up with you. When the next bus load of civilian children gets blown up by the LTTE, know this… by your actions in Sri Lanka, you are responsible for it in some way . With this on your mind, I hope you sleep well at night.

Sri Lanka pretends to the international community that it goes by universal charter of human rights, etc but bases its national governance on Sinhala Buddhist mythology. Look at this: People and politicians in Sri Lanka get together to seek divine help to deal with existential problems that in many secular democracies in the west as well as the in the east have been effectively addressed by rational state intervention, guided not by spiritual leaders, but by scientists and professionals - Prof S. T. Hettige, Dept of Sociology, University of Colombo

Kevin Thank You very much your truth reports around Srilanka.Some People doesn't take true reports easyly,because they are involved in there badly.Accusations against journalists it's normal,Keep it up the good work.Dont affraid to write the news that seen in LTTE state and Government State.Kevin that will help us to create a Nation for Tamils Good Luck Thanks Malaravan.M

mangkaru - Do you know for a fact it was the LTTE that blew up the bus? You have hard evidence to back that up? I am not saying it was or was not as I was not there, I have no idea who actually carried out the violence. You seem to be assuming there, and assumptions are the mother of all f*ck ups. How about instead of pointing fingers, people try to work together to solve the conflict?

I think the phrase "tit for tat violence" is by far the best description I have heard on this controversy. As the song says, "It's all about the he said she said bullsh*t". All the people on the sidelines pointing fingers are just as guilty of propogating the violence as the actual combatants. I sincerely hope that they read this article and wake up and see what a beautiful life they could have if they just stopped fighting.

Tamils of SriLanka claim, since the 50's, that they are being discriminated and deprived of 1)Language usage 2) Educational and Employment opportunities 3) Economic Activities 4)Physical Safety. If this is true, why the successive Governments failed to find a solution? If this claim is false why the successive governments failed to win over the Tamils by convincing otherwise? Bala

It's by the courage of some journalists that at least a part of the truth comes out to the outside world from repressive countries. Keep up your good work, Kevin. Even if Sri Lankan (Tamil as well as Sinhalese)journalists are harassed/killed in Sri Lanka, now and then some foreign journalists manage to smuggle out the truth.

Hi Kevin, I lived in Colombo for almost 25 years or so. I have Sinhalese friends and our neighbors for the 35 years are thee same Sinhalese family. I am not at all against the Sinhalese people. We the younger generation did not experience the brutality of the Sinhalese thugs killed the Tamil in 1950’s and 1970’s. But we all know what happened in 1983. The same family who lived besides us for the last 35 years look at us like outsiders now. It’s not their fault. It is the government who is creating this distance between the Tamil community and the Sinhalese people. If peace were to return to Srilanka the Sinhalese people have to understand the reality. Just can’t accuse anyone who is telling the truth that they are biost. They have to come out of that circle and accept the reality. Even before your article “We don’t take sides” on 19th of June I posted my comment that they will brand you as a Pro Tiger and a Tamil supporter for telling the truth to the world. This is exactly what the former foreign minister Kathirgamar did, as soon as an international media accuses the government of any wrong doing he will voice his objection and try demonize that news media. Because he had a Tamil name every one think he is Tamil so it should be true. I must agree this way they have successfully kept most of the international media from reporting the actual truth about the Tamil peoples suffering. I will not be surprised that you receive a notice from the Srilankan saying that I do not report what they want you will be welcomed here again. Not think it would not happen. What normally happens after these allegations against the reporter is, the news media he works for or the reporter himself decides to report the truth and starts reporting some think biost towards us. I am very confident that you are not like one of them. For you reference I am attaching an article form a fellow reporter Matthew Rosenberg, SATURDAY, June 17, 4 p.m. local VAVUNIYA DISTRICT, Sri Lanka We were racing to the northwest coast, trying to get to a village where witnesses say this morning government forces — navy and army troopers we're told — shot up a town, killing an elderly women at church, and four fisherman on the beach. The details are still coming in, but it looks like there was a battle between the Sri Lankan navy and the Sea Tigers, as the rebels' navy is known. As the two sides slugged it out offshore, the government forces came through town to secure the shoreline and in the process killed five innocents. While five deaths in a day is sadly not that exceptional here any more, we'd decided to put off our trip to rebel territory and head to the village, Pesalai, to get a firsthand account of a government attack on civilians from the Tamil minority. Many here say such attacks happen often, but rarely do any solid details emerge so quickly. We've already got a reporter in a town near the village, and now myself and a photographer are trying to link up with him. The government has already denied any role in the killings and blamed the deaths on the Tigers. What's creating problems for us is that the military has shut the road, leaving us stranded at an army checkpoint looking out over scrub brush and muddy tidal flats miles from where we need to be. The officers here smile firmly at our protestations. There is a "search and clear" operation underway and it would be too dangerous for us to proceed, they explain. A defense ministry official didn't bother with excuses when he spoke with a colleague: "Of course we're not letting you in. You're biased!"

Hi,Everyone... every women, every man... all people of all faiths and all races must find a way to embrace each other's differences, and search for compromise and a way to co-exist.The solution depends on us all, and it starts with everyone.

First of all i have to tell that I am 29 years old Tamil from Canada. I have very sad story to share with you all. My uncle has small store in Canada and as everybody knows LTTE came to collect funds every month. But my uncle could not pay what they were asking from him like most Canadian Tamils do, because he did not earn that much from his store because he had lots of loans to pay. About a year ago my grand mother passed away and my uncle went to Sri Lanka (LTTE Control area) for her funeral. After he went there LTTE took his passport and he is still in Sri Lanka. He did not give money because he did not have any. We love our people that is why we send money to our relatives in sri lanka every month but we do not have kind of money LTTE asking from us. What I am asking the world and Sri Lankan People, do not hate us Tamils because of what group of people doing. I love to have a our own homeland but LTTE is not the right people for leadership.