Yes. It's clearly a different country. When I lived there, there was a year of war and then there was the peace process, which really opened things up. There was a lot of freedom, freedom of movement, and I don't think so much fear.
Many of the people I used to sit with in press conferences and see on trips are now asylum seekers and refugees, working in factories and sweeping floors, not able to do their jobs as journalists. They are in Europe or in the U.K. They have lost everything, basically. This includes people who worked for the BBC or for Reuters or for major international organizations. They are literally reduced now.
We know that about 50 journalists fled from basically 2008-09. You have to remember what a tiny country Sri Lanka is and how Colombo-centric the journalism is. When you remove 50 of the best, and the most liberal, and the most open-minded journalists, then it's a huge dent in civil society.
You now have a situation where a lot of information doesn't really filter into Sri Lanka in Sinhala, because there aren't that many journalists who speak Sinhala and English well, and certainly Tamil on top of that. You'll find that most of them have probably left.