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At Colomboscope 2026 in Sri Lanka, a score for many people
06 Feb 2026 03:13 GMT
… descendant of plantation workers in Sri Lanka, originally brought over as indentured … , a building ravaged by the Black July pogroms of 1983, Basir Mahmood … amidst the sociopolitical realities of Sri Lanka – the civil war, institutionalised corruption …
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Sri Lanka’s Civil War and the Limits of Literature
19 Jan 2026 15:06 GMT
… righteous, into heroism. But Sri Lanka buried the writing itself.
… (1992), and “Intervention in Sri Lanka” by Maj. Gen. Harkirat … silence. Some truths in Sri Lanka cannot be told conventionally. … than heals.
July 1983: Black July, when the veil first tore …
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Reimagining Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war – with fabric, superheroes and copper soldiers
21 Sep 2025 04:27 GMT
… for nearly 25 years.
Sri Lanka’s civil war is often … been long-standing tensions between Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese majority and Tamil … anti-Tamil pogrom, known as Black July, led to a massive exodus … ethnic conflict and war in Sri Lanka, it resonates with a shared …
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‘Avidya’: Vidyan Ravinthiran’s poems are a compelling chronicler of Sri Lanka’s political history
24 Aug 2025 19:24 GMT
… was the island country of Sri Lanka.
The winds blowing in from … weaving in the narrative of Black July. There’s a deliberate refrain … armed forces/ and in Sri Lanka, journalism. Countless journalists have been …
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Remembering the infamous 1983 Black July Massacres of Tamils in Sri Lanka
24 Jul 2025 07:40 GMT
… EINPresswire.com/ -- Black July 1983, the infamous massacre … of their properties in Sri Lanka, which prompted the … community to hold Sri Lanka to unconditionally release … international community should refer Sri Lanka to International Criminal …
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Statement by Prime Minister Carney to mark 42 years since Black July
24 Jul 2025 00:51 GMT
… anti-Tamil pogrom erupted in Sri Lanka, leaving thousands dead, families shattered … to flee. Black July remains a tragic chapter in Sri Lanka’s history.
Driven …
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Why Black July still matters in 2025
22 Jul 2025 03:06 GMT
“When we commit ourselves to education as the practice of freedom, we participate in the making of an academic community where we can be and become intellectuals in the fullest and deepest sense of the word.”
– bell hooks (1989)
Traditionally understood, …
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How Rajiv Gandhi’s decision to send troops to Sri Lanka cost him his life
08 Jul 2025 03:47 GMT
… culminating the country’s Sri Lanka misadventure that has long … demanding autonomy or independence for Sri Lanka’s Tamil regions — Tamils … that led to the “Black July” riots which sparked the … Indian Military (2017).
In Sri Lanka, the Indian intervention was …
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Sri Lanka’s War Widows Are Clearing Its Land of Mines
21 May 2025 14:55 GMT
… eastern Sri Lanka,” says Cristy McLennan, the former Sri Lanka country … had culminated in the Black July pogrom of 1983, when … minefield in Vavuniya, northern Sri Lanka. (Jessie Williams)This … work in Sri Lanka.
The government of Sri Lanka issued a …
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The cost of silence: Sri Lanka’s genocide, global impunity, and the economics of erasure — Che Ran
25 Mar 2025 05:05 GMT
… Jayasuriya — all former heads of Sri Lanka’s military apparatus — and Vinayagamoorthy … “Black July” pogroms. They were laid much earlier — in 1948, when Sri Lanka (then … crimes, reparations, or transitional justice. Sri Lanka was now “open for business …