The last days of the Sri Lankan war didn't get much coverage at all in the UK. The above linked program was shown very late at night on a channel 4 (not one of the most widely viewed channels). The actions of the Sri Lankan government were immoral in the extreem and the immoral actions of the Tigers does not mitigate this.Skeptic wrote:Yes, I had this one in mind. During the war in Balkans there was much more killings and ethnic cleansing than in Sri Lanka, but in beginning nobody cared about it. Western media started to report about it when many thousands of people were already killed. In Sinhalese dominated areas there are many ethnicaly mixed areas full of Tamils, just look at Colombo for example. This would be impossible in the Balkans during the war, people of other ethnicity would be mostly expelled or killed.
My point is that western media started to report about Sinhalese crimes, and ignore the Tamil crimes for political reasons. War crimes just happened all the time from both sides, but the emphasis in reporting about them was changed. And there is kind of western supremacist bias in media, portraying both Sinhalese and Tamils as wild Asians, while ignoring the fact that in the Europe there was much worse and brutal ethnic clansing not so long time ago.
The war in the Balkans did receive wide coverage + intervention + some of the perpetrators have been brought to account.
Do you think the Rohingya should be afforded "rights" in Myanmar