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Michelle de Kretser at the Galle Literary Festival in 2011<\/span><\/h2>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ITEM in Groundviews, 20 January 2011, entitled\u00a0\u201cResponding to a Facile Appeal: Galle Literary Festival and Freedom of Expression\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Source:<\/span><\/strong><\/span>Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Michelle de Kretser signing. Photo by Sharni Jayawardena,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0courtesy\u00a0Galle Literary Festival<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n
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The Editors of\u00a0Groundviews<\/em>\u00a0received via email this morning intimation of an international appeal made by Reporters Without Borders and Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS), a network of exiled Sri Lankan journalists. The Galle literary festival appeal notes\u00a0inter alia<\/em>,<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe believe this is not the right time for prominent international writers like you to give legitimacy to the Sri Lankan government\u2019s suppression of free speech by attending a conference that does not in any way push for greater freedom of expression inside that country.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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We also wonder why this appeal is issued now, in 2011? GLF began during war, and continued throughout it. Reflecting this, GLF sessions proper, as well as a number of fringe events over the years, have addressed issues of media freedom and the freedom of expression. At the 4th GLF, fringe panels included interesting discussions on what post-war literature and writing would be like, what issues they would address and how. At the 3rd GLF, a fringe event brought together a senior government spokesperson from the Presidential Media Unit as well as other journalists to talk about what even at the time was a fairly bleak outlook for media freedom.\u00a0At its core, GLF is embodies precisely what RSF\/JDS often advocate \u2013 a space for critical enjoyment of the written and spoken word and a platform for the celebration of ideas. If writers boycott the festival, so will international media. And if international media boycotts the event, how can they report on the challenges facing mainstream media when compared to the freedom of expression in the festival? As Lindesay Irvine said in the\u00a0Guardian<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in 2009<\/a>,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll of this marvellously free expression struck a distinctly uneasy note, knowing that one of the world\u2019s bloodiest civil wars was being played out on the other side of the island, with thousands of civilians trapped between the\u00a0Sri Lankan army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam<\/a>, the world\u2019s press kept away and local journalists all too aware that to report anything other than the government\u2019s propaganda is to put your life in peril. (I should stress here that both sides of the Sri Lankan civil war are very careful not to endanger western tourists, and visitors to the southern half of the island are at no tangible risk. They need your money. Go.)\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Each GLF brings with it more, not less scrutiny on the country\u2019s media landscape. It keeps Sri Lanka on the international media\u2019s map, when in fact it rarely is now that the war is over. The festival\u2019s curator, Shyam Selvadurai, is an award winning Tamil author. Any charge that he is insensitive to the complex politics of conflict and violence is one that simply does not stick.\u00a0His recent interview featured on\u00a0<\/a>Groundviews<\/a><\/em>\u00a0suggests a festival that is popular and keenly anticipated, locally as well as internationally. As for not dealing with more contentious issues related to war, the BBC World Forum is organising as part of the official programme\u00a0a session moderated by the outspoken, award winning human rights and media freedom activist Sunila Abeysekara<\/a>\u00a0on how displacement continues to affect the Sri Lankan psyche almost two years after the end of the civil war. The panel also features Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who explores the lasting effects of Nigeria\u2019s 1960s civil war through some of her stories in\u00a0The Thing Around Your Neck<\/em>. Perhaps this escaped the attention of RSF and JDS.<\/span><\/p>\n

Groundviews\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<\/em>Vikalpa<\/a><\/em>\u00a0have borne witness to Sri Lanka\u2019s atrocious record of media freedom since their inception, including on\u00a0Lasantha<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Prageeth<\/a>. RSF\/JDS find it \u201cit highly disturbing that literature is being celebrated in this manner in a land where cartoonists, journalists, writers and dissident voices are so often victimized by the current government.\u201d The concern over the deterioration of media freedom is fully shared. How to address it is emphatically not. If GLF celebrates literature, that alone is reason enough to support it, attend and expand as much as possible the idea of the festival to other locations in Sri Lanka and in the vernacular to boot. If it is the case that the freedom of expression within GLF is absent from mainstream media, then the remedy is surely to not boycott the one instance where it is actually present?<\/span><\/p>\n

The appeal ends by noting that \u201cunless and until the disappearance of Prageeth is investigated and there is a real improvement in the climate for free expression in Sri Lanka, you cannot celebrate writing and the arts in Galle\u201d. In fact, it\u2019s also investigations into Lasantha\u2019s murder that we need to be concerned about. Sustained emphasis on both cases in particular and the serious challenges facing media freedom in general, however, does not justify a boycott of GLF. In not recognising the symbolic value of an event where during war and after it, the freedom of expression is actively encouraged, RSF and JDS undermine their own appeal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Events like GLF are sadly rare. Let us enjoy them in peace.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Michelle de Kretser at the Galle Literary Festival in 2011 Source:Thuppahis ITEM in Groundviews, 20 January 2011, entitled\u00a0\u201cResponding to a Facile Appeal: Galle Literary Festival and Freedom of Expression\u201d Source:Thuppahis Michelle de Kretser signing. Photo by Sharni Jayawardena,\u00a0courtesy\u00a0Galle Literary Festival The Editors of\u00a0Groundviews\u00a0received via email this morning intimation of an international appeal made by Reporters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[59684,4732,42510],"class_list":{"0":"post-153552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-galle-literary-festival","9":"tag-michelle-de-kretser","10":"tag-shyam-selvadurai","11":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"\nMichelle de Kretser at the Galle Literary Festival in 2011<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Editors of\u00a0Groundviews\u00a0received via email this morning intimation of an international appeal made by Reporters Without Borders\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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