the Rajapaksa family. She refused and on 21 September 2012 she was sacked as editor. She was replaced by Sakuntala Perera. "The new management appointed a new editor even as I was sitting in the office," Jansz said in July 2013. Seneviratne disputed Jansz’s account of her dismissal. According to Jansz, Seneviratne asked her stop publishing articles critical of the Sri Lankan government and the Rajapaksa family. She refused and on 21 September 2012 she was sacked as editor. She was replaced by Sakuntala Perera as editor of The Sunday Leader. Seneviratne denies Jansz claims. Resettlement in US Prior to her sacking, Jansz had applied via the Australian High Commission in Colombo for a humanitarian visa to resettle in Australia citing death threats. Her application was turned down in October 2012 "on the grounds that she was not out of Sri Lanka at the time of making the claim." The US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, however, “befriended Jansz and gave her and her sons entry into the United States.” Issued a US visa, she and her two sons arrived in Seattle in October 2012. She applied for asylum and settled in Puyallup, Washington, where she found a job working in interior design. She chose Washington State because of its proximity to Canada, where she has a cousin. She is currently studying for a degree in interior design and "starting from scratch – all over again." In November 2012 she said that she would never return to Sri Lanka. "There's no going back for me, absolutely not. I feel lucky that I got out of this alive." In June 2013 Jansz said that it gave her "terrible pain" to think about Sri Lanka. "It's the mundane things that I miss—I dream of this one sandy, gravel road in Sri Lanka. I desperately miss my home. I loved my country and I never wanted to leave, but I had to force myself to put it all behind me….As long as I look back, I cannot move forward. And every day, I get a little stronger." Jansz is scheduled to speak at the Oslo Freedom Forum in May 2014. Honors and awards Jansz won the Editor's Guild of Sri Lanka Journalist of the Year Award in 2004. References Burgher journalists Living people Sri Lankan people of Dutch descent Sri Lankan women journalists 20th-century Sri Lankan writers 20th-century Sri Lankan women writers 21st-century Sri