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🧵1. On 18 July 2009, a mere two months after the end of the war in #SriLanka, a team of exiled
progressive #Sinhala journalists and #Tamil journalists came together and established @JDS.
progressive #Sinhala journalists and #Tamil journalists came together and established @JDS.
2. In the post-war context, JDS played & continues to play a vital role on #accountability and
#justice issues related to Sri Lanka. Fueled by a moral obligation, the committed members of
JDS covered issues many feared to undertake.
#justice issues related to Sri Lanka. Fueled by a moral obligation, the committed members of
JDS covered issues many feared to undertake.
3. Journalists within JDS chose to step forward and reveal evidence of war crimes and crimes
against humanity committed by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces (SLAF) during the final stages
of the war.
against humanity committed by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces (SLAF) during the final stages
of the war.
With the recent discussion of the #nationalanthem and the debate between singing it in #sinhala and #tamil, today we're going to take a look at the #history of this song seeing what we can take away from it's controversial past...
#EconomicCrisisLK #GoHomeGota2022 #Srilanka
#EconomicCrisisLK #GoHomeGota2022 #Srilanka
Prior to Independence, the national anthem of Ceylon was 'God Save the King' - a fact of colonial rule which many despised. The Ceylon National Congress, one of the nation's independence organisations, vowed to create a new national anthem when the nation became independent.
When Ceylon achieved it needed a new national song so contest was set up to select one and a judging panel was set up. However there was resentment as "In a controversial decision, two of the panelists were declared winners...It began as – 'Sri Lanka Matha/Pala Yasa Mahima'"
JOIN US as we mark 31 days of continuous People’s Protest, at Kohuwela junction on Thurs March 31st!💪🏾
It’s heartening to see so many people’s protests not affiliated to political parties over the weekend! It’s time the people realised their power!
#takebackourpower✊🏾 #lka
It’s heartening to see so many people’s protests not affiliated to political parties over the weekend! It’s time the people realised their power!
#takebackourpower✊🏾 #lka
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Our report on #torture & sexual violence by #srilankan police (including TID) & army - some of it in known police stations - in the last 2 years under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. #lka
.@UNHumanRights
Our report on #torture & sexual violence by #srilankan police (including TID) & army - some of it in known police stations - in the last 2 years under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. #lka
.@UNHumanRights
@UNHumanRights In this report we draw the linkages to the past, examining how the security forces used similar tactics (& white vans) in 1987-90 against mainly #Sinhalese. Those who survived were called "returned prisoners" Drawing on old .@amnesty reports & the commissions .@iqbals37 sat on.
#BLACKJULY - anti-Tamil pogrom and riots in #Sri Lanka during July 1983. 38 years ago to this day. Over seven days, mainly #Sinhala mobs attacked, burned, looted, and killed #Tamil targets. My family and I were one of those affected 1/n…..
I was 5 years old at that time, my sister 4 and my brother 3. My family and I were first hand witnesses to this atrocity and were lucky to escape with our lives from Colombo. Our house was burnt along with our all of our possessions. 2/n..
This was the trigger for the war lasting for decades killing more than 200,000 Tamils including my friends and family, result in upheaval for our community and lifelong scars for current and future generations destroying our way of life and homeland. 3/n….
Another ITJP infographic summarising the various information sources regarding estimates for the death toll in the 2009 war in #srilanka:
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Let’s look first at the UN contemporaneously collected data (Petrie report) - 54,715 casualties (including injured some of whom may not have survived) in just 4 months in a tiny area of land in #SriLanka - 7,737 of the names of dead were corroborated by 3 sources.
The UN contemporaneous data did not include the most devastating final weeks of the 2009 war - rough estimates for which below - but there was nobody able to count by then. #lka
Interesting to hear @PereraJehanpc in @iicdelhi’s Neighbourhood First - on #SriLanka’s recent election and return of the Rajapaksas. He appeared to be optimistic about the new government with 2/3 majority - for the very same reasons Indian liberals are unhappy with #Modi 2.0
2/n On #SriLanka-India relationship, @SultanaGulbin i
expects a more pragmatic approach from both the #mahindarajapaksa government and #Modi-2.0 on all fronts - political, military, tourism and cultural but not, perhaps, economic - notwithstanding the “blow hot, blow cold” past.
expects a more pragmatic approach from both the #mahindarajapaksa government and #Modi-2.0 on all fronts - political, military, tourism and cultural but not, perhaps, economic - notwithstanding the “blow hot, blow cold” past.
Please watch and share this video I have made demonstrating an active home management plan for mild #COVID19 in the context of limited access to hospital care/testing using simple affordable equipment. This will help save many lives. Stay safe 🙏🏼
I have divided management principles into 3 categories: 1/ priming immunity 2/ reducing viral load 3/ breathing exercises/positioning. Demos: pulse oximetry, saline nasal rinse, basic lung physiology, box breathing, balloon blowing (auto PEEP), bubble blowing via straw into H2O.
My video is now available to view in 12 other languages on my YouTube channel (French, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi & Bengali). More language dubs are on the way. Pls watch/share: 👉🏼youtube.com/playlist?list=…
