Amantha Perera is the news features editor of the The Sunday Leader in Sri Lanka, a paper he joined in 1998. He is also a correspondent and Sinhala service coordinator with Inter Press News Service (IPS). He has covered a variety of issues for his paper, including the recent peace talks between the LTTE and the government. Amantha has won several Sri Lankan journalism awards and was a Jefferson Fellow (East-West Center) in 2001