Citizen Journalism video channel launched in Sri Lanka

Vikalpa, Sri Lanka's only citizen journalism initiative working primarily in Sinhala and Tamil, is pleased to announce the official launch of its YouTube video channel, available for immediate viewing at http://www.youtube.com/vikalpasl

Featuring alternative narratives on conflict transformation, democracy, good governance and peace in Sri Lanka, Vikalpa - http://www.vikalpa.org - promotes key voices and opinions of citizens rarely featured in vernacular traditional media. Our YouTube channel complements the text on the website and currently features over 50 short videos on human rights, peace, war, media freedom, gender and politics in Sri Lanka.

Videos on the Vikalpa YouTube channel have already generated hundreds of views, with a few generating views in the thousands. For example, a video (in Sinhala) on a human rights activist's trip to and experiences in the embattled Jaffna peninsula in the North of Sri Lanka, viewed over 4,000 times, propelled the channel into #82 of the top 100 list of Director's Channels on YouTube in the 4th week of December 2007.
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