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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 24, 2008
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Photo by Chandragupta Amarasinghe
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What happened in mid-1983 and in the last week of July 1983 was obscene, a monumental atrocity, a disaster for Sri Lanka. In a context marked by the push for self-determination by the principal forces representing the Sri Lankan Tamils and an...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 23, 2008
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July usually passes me by without too much notice, beyond the vague worry that there might be a Tiger attack on Colombo, and a few flashbacks to that weekend in 1983. But this time it’s been a bit different. I’ve found myself reliving that day a lot more this year. It isn’t the fact that...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 22, 2008
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AFLAME - Remembering Black July, 1983
What is a poem
to a man hiding
in the cellar
of his neighbor’s house,
breathing the way
his hostess spices
lentils and mutton,
while son and daughter
keep quiet,
not one word
allowed
in the mother tongue,
and wife strokes
her neck,...... [view]
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