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| Friday, 1 October 2004 |
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The BBC has appointed Dumeetha Luthra as its new Sri Lanka correspondent. Based in London till 2000, where she began her career in the BBC in 1995 as a producer, Luthra set up in Croatia and as a producer covered the fall of Milosevic, the conflict in Macedonia and other Balkan events. After September 11, 2001 she went to Afghanistan, working there until December 2002. In 2003 at the time of the Iraq war, Luthra was in Northern Iraq to cover the story for BBC News. After a brief stay in London she returned to Basra to report on the present turmoil in the country and then went to Baghdad for a stint there. She is currently BBC News correspondent in Baghdad. Luthra joined her new post in Colombo from September this year. Luthra, an economics graduate said: "I'm really looking forward to working in Sri Lanka. I've travelled so much in the past few years so Sri Lanka will provide a great opportunity to really discover stories in a fascinating and beautiful country." The highpoints of Luthra's journalistic career have been covering the fall of Kabul in Afghanistan in November 2001 with journalist John Simpson (Editor, BBC World Affairs Unit), the fall of Kirkuk in April 2003 and days later the fall of Tikrit. She spent five months in Basra covering the Iraq story from a different perspective, providing a real day-to-day picture outside of the daily bombings from Baghdad. The BBC's South Asia Bureau Editor Paul Danahar said: "Dumeetha comes to one of the most important assignments in South Asia. She brings to the post the right mix of experience and enthusiasm essential to report on the wide-ranging stories from Sri Lanka. BBC's reporting from Sri Lanka has been highly respected in the past, I am sure Dumeetha will reinforce that credibility." |
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