Rajpal Abeynayake, editor of the government owned Daily News countered by pointing out that in almost all Western countries, it is still a punishable offence to deny that the Holocaust took place and that for many years after the Second World War, it was illegal to paint the victorious allied armies in a bad light and that the West was now trying to deny the same right to Sri Lanka. Dharmasiri Bandaranayake, a veteran film maker has said that ‘regimented jackboots’ were ‘crushing artistic expression’. This has led to cries that the freedom of expression was being stifled. The festival itself was halted, probably the first time that such a thing happened in Sri Lanka. ![]() Last week, there was a mighty furore over the screening of an anti-war film Igillena Maaluwo (Flying Fish) at a French Film Festival held in Colombo.
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