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Posted By:  yajitha
Posted On:  Jul 24, 2008

  July 1983: Looking back in anger and despair 25 years on

Photo by Chandragupta Amarasinghe ONE 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]

Posted By:  yajitha
Posted On:  Jul 23, 2008

  My name is Cedric. Do you remember me?

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]

Posted By:  yajitha
Posted On:  Jul 22, 2008

  AFLAME - Remembering Black July, 1983

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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