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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 8, 2008
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R.Venugopal
The course of this conflict has seen many unlikely bed-fellows, serendipitous twists of fortune, and actions that led to very unforeseen consequences. When the dust settles and the history of the present is written some day, it will have to record the extraordinary debt that the...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Sep 29, 2008
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By Witness
I traveled to the Vanni on 17th September, with the hope of getting a lorry load of foodstuff from Vavuniya to Vanni, but it was impossible, as the Killinochchhi Government Agent’s convoy had been stopped at that time.
From Omanthai exit - entry point to Killinochchi, the...... [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 9, 2008
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Less that a kilometre away from a cluster of government offices in Puttalam dedicated to the welfare of Muslim IDPs is the home of thirty one year old Madeena, her jobless husband and six children.
The small, completely cadjan thatched hut, teeters upon the mercy of the weather. It is one of...... [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 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....... [view]
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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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