Speedy information on development needed

Amila Prabath Wanasinghe

Journalists should endeavour to speedily disseminate correct information on developments and happenings in Sri Lanka to the outside world. Sri Lanka is facing allegations from various international quarters today, because there is a laxity in providing such correct information said the Human Rights Commissioner Dr. Pratibha Mahanama.

He was addressing a two day awareness programme on the protection and promotion of Human Rights attended by journalists of the NCP at the Tourist Board Hotel in Anuradhapura recently. Mahanamahewa said Sri Lanka was facing various allegations as a country because it refused to work according to international agendas.

Although certain international forces accused Sri Lanka about human rights violations they conveniently ignored blatant human rights violations committed in Libya, Iraq and other countries. He said developments in outstation areas filter to the outside world in a flash through the internet. As such provincial journalists too had a big role to play in disseminating the developments in their areas to the outside world.