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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Oct 15, 2008
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I wish to draw wider public attention to the following extract appearing in “ A short note from the Vanni ” written by “Witness” and appearing in the Groundviews on September 30, 2008:
“The people now staying at Vattakachi and Tharmapuram areas are requesting to...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Oct 10, 2008
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By Witness
On the 30th of September, I traveled to Kilinochchi through Oddusuddan, Puthukudiyiruppu. This is not the regular A9 road which we travel from Vavuniya to Kilinochchi. It is the road A34 which turns towards Mullaitheevu at Mankulam from A9.
Fortunately, this time I got a lift...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Oct 1, 2008
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by R.M.B. Senanayake
The attack on the human rights lawyer Weliamuna in the night where he is living with two small children show that danger is not far away from all citizens who uphold human rights and democratic norms. We the educated and influential in society have been silent when white...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Sep 10, 2008
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The day before yesterday, the government of Sri Lanka ordered all humanitarian organisations to cease all operations and remove all personnel (except Vanni residents) and assets from the LTTE controlled part of the Vanni. The question this observer wishes to explore is why the Government of Sri...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Aug 1, 2008
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It was July ‘83.
I was seventeen, which you’ll be surprised about if you’ve seen my youthful appearance and I was in Sri Lanka on one of those “extended” studenty type of holidays that we all wish we could have now. It was the summer between the first and second...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 30, 2008
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I don’t think I had the slightest inkling of a problem between the sinhala and tamil people in Sri Lanka, until July 1983. But I should have.
In the heady days of the 1977 election, a good 13 years before I could vote, I remember my father quite nonchalantly relating a story: at some...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 29, 2008
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More than two and a half decades later, one of my friends has asked to interview me about the ‘83 riots. I was ten years old. My family was from the Sinhala majority, with relatives who were strong figures in politics and the military. How could I reply?
July 1983
My mind goes back...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 28, 2008
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Member of Parliament and Convener of the Civil Monitoring Committee, Mano Ganeshan, speaks about his experiences during the anti-Tamil riots in July 1983.
For more articles on July 1983, please click here .
Similar Posts: Interview with Mano Ganeshan on abductions of Tamils in...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 27, 2008
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Prominent Tamil civil society activist Shanthi Sachithanandan shares her experiences of the July 1983 anti-Tamil riots in Sri Lanka.
For the Sinhala version of the interview, click here and visit the Vikalpa YouTube Channel for more short videos on the events of July 1983.
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 28, 2008
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by Somapala Gunadheera
Off and on, I write short stories, never anecdotes. But now I have to oblige Sanjana. He wants stories about our ethnic riots, the one that raged before he was born and the other when he was at school. Therapists say that anecdotes have a healing effect on ethnic wounds....... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 26, 2008
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From my Diary Notes written in Cell No.1, Negombo Remand Prison, (July 31st-Sept 24th 1983)
I had my own gruesome experience of the Black July. It was 29th July at midnight that I received a telephone call from my friend and party comrade AJMO Dr. Indra Kumar of his father’s...... [view]
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