In a recently introduced list of several things, Time Magazine has also added the "Top 10 Underreported News Stories" of 2008. Sri Lanka's conflict ranks third, right after the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The title says that Sri Lanka's conflict this year is deadlier than Afghanistan. Yet somehow, there is very little news coming out of the island.
In January the Sri Lankan government pulled out of its shaky 2002 cease-fire
agreement with the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in an official nod to
the fact that the country is once again engaged in civil war. Deadlier this
year than the fighting in Afghanistan, the combat has raged largely under
the radar because the government has banned from the war zone foreign
journalists as well as most aid groups, which is bad news for the 300,000
Sri Lankans who have been forced out of their homes.
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