Susitha R. Fernando is a journalist and the film critic for a Sri Lankan

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'' and its Sunday weekly edition, ''

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'', based in

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Education and training

Fernando is from

. In 2005, while an undergraduate, he took part in the 34th

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(IFFR)'s training program for young film critics. At that time he became the film critic for the ''

'', an English

. He has reported on film and other news stories for the Sri Lanka ''Daily Mirror'' and its weekly Sunday newspaper, ''

''..See "Articles by Susitha R. Fernando (Results)". Retrieved on 18 February 2009.

Controversy

One of his news accounts, entitled "Officers Suffer from

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-backed Offenders' False Accusation" and published in the ''Daily Mirror'' on 8 November 2006, became the subject of a press release and letter to the editor submitted by the

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on the same day. [''Sushita'' in the title is a typographical error; the intended name is ''Susitha''. The author of the article is Susitha R. Fernando, as stated elsewhere in the press release, letter to the editor, and accompanying documents in the PDF case file, cited below. See 19–22, which includes reproduction of the article by Susitha R. Fernando and letter from AHRC Executive Director Basil Fernando.

Notes

External links

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