All the racist rats that left the Rajapaksa sinking ship are now building a new ship. Will the Sinhala-Buddhist voters of SL make these rank racists and downright opportunists politically irrelevant in the next election?

Eight Lok Sabha seats and one Assembly seat go to the polls in the last phase on June 1. Four of the nine INDIA-backed candidates in this last phase have been fielded by CPIML Liberation. Wish INDIA a clean sweep in Bihar in this final push against the dictatorial Modi regime.

One wonders whether this bunch of racists or the Rajapaksa-led SLLP is the worst scum on earth. After the next round of elections, they may all come together again.

Companion video feature, with perspectives from Mullaitivu residents Antony Jesurathnam Mariapushparani, Sivasundarampillai Thangamma, journalist-activist kumanan , & Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard

WATCH HERE: youtube.com/watch?v=541N6Y… via The Hindu

A must read piece to understand the war-affected Tamil community's ongoing struggle for justice and livelihood.

'Finish it off' was the general consensus of the JVP & Southern polity

15 yrs on, vying for power & social change, 1 would hope the JVP had reflectd on their racist past

But no reflection, no public position on the National Q & Lal now boasts of their hand in heinous war crimes

Shame.

There is absolutely no will towards introspection within the JVP. With this kind of racist, triumphalist rhetoric, how can a political party bring together the different communities inhabiting the island?

Yamani S Gunawardena I compiled a reading list on 'exploring ethno-religious identity formation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Sri Lanka' for Everystory Sri Lanka (everystorysrilanka.medium.com/exploring-ethn…) which might be a good place to start if you're interested in that!

Just your regular reminder on the fluidity of ethnic and other identities, and the success of constructed narratives on historical opposition between Sinhalese and Tamils.

By John Rogers' analysis, Sinhalese Karavas, Salagamas & Duravas are more south Indian than most Tamils 🙃

Cartoon by Namal Amarasinghe

#lka #SriLanka #EconomicCrisisLK

Alliance between Israel and antisemitic parties in Europe is curious to say the least. Nationalism brings them together

My thoughts on the civil war, state repression of memorialization and the Tamils' search for justice and equality.

‘දැන් ඉන්නේ තවත් යුද්ධයක! සිහිකිරීම උදෙසා යුද්ධයක‘ යාපනය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ ආචාර්ය තිරුවරංගන් සමග විශේෂ සාකච්ඡාව whatnews.lk/2024/05/19/thi…

Police aggressively clear out flowers & candles & throw out #Kanji that Eastern Uni students were going to distribute in commemoration of #Tamils killed in May 2009

Despite a revoked court order, Tamils continue to be denied the right to remember in #SL - x.com/TamilGuardian/…

Protest in solidarity with the #Tamil people's right to remember, to release all those arrested & to arrest the police who dragged off a #Tamil woman & arrested her for distributing Kanji in memory of those killed in the last phase of the war, was held outside the Police HQ today

Tamils across the North & East commemorate their loved ones killed in the last phase of the war in Mullivaikkal, May 2009. Unthinkable atrocities & war crimes were committd by the SL Govt

15 yrs since the end of the war, #Tamils have no hope for justice or accountability

#May18

15yrs down the line, in the least, let’s use this day to reflect as opposed to ‘celebrate’ the death of our own.

To quote a Tamil victim
“When the war ended, all of you ate kiribath. Didn’t you? In the world that I come from, no one eats kiribath when someone dies”

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#lka 🇱🇰

2/ The locals who protested against DP's gloves factory demanding clean and safe drinking #water were shot by the army 10 years ago. Out of the 3 people who were killed 2 were school children. The army officers injured over 50 people including journalists.

1/ No justice for the three people killed during the #Rathupaswala shooting. Today all 4 suspects were released due to 'The Attorney General's failure to prove the charges against the accused beyond reasonable doubt'.

#WaterIsARight #CleanWater #WaterPollution #HumanRights

Not just ethnicity, in Sri Lanka your class position and the class position of the ones whose exploitation you challenged and protested against also decide sometimes whether or not you deserve justice.