Morten Hvaal a photojournalist on the road: May 2009 Archives

Magnanimous Mahinda and the Foreign Media Mob

on May 25, 2009 3:03 AM | 2

 Some little man in a Colombo cafe started shouting abuse at me the other day. I don’t know him, and I don’t know why. That sort of thing is very rare here, but perhaps I shouldn't be surprised, given the......more

Sri Lanka: The Gaza Connection.

on May 15, 2009 6:35 AM | 1

It's yet another Colombo morning filled with somewhat bizarre events and news.  An SMS message from a local news service just interrupted coffee on my sixth-floor balcony in Wellawatte, saying a suspected LTTE cadre has jumped off a seventh-floor balcony in Wellawatte after security......more

Free Tiger tour, anyone?

on May 3, 2009 2:13 PM | 5

So, "Foreign media taken on a free ride by the LTTE", according to the Sri Lankan Government's propaganda website "Media Centre For National Security" (MCNS). Apparently, many of us are terrorist sympathisers and, well, stupid. I might actually have......more