I Am Project

“On the day I won, was the day riots in Colombo started. And when my brother came and described all of them, and I felt, you know, I am not there, and here I am putting Sri Lanka in the sports headlines.” Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam, The Sportsman.

On 20th July, Shahidul Alam communicated a dispatch and diary entries of the brutal crackdown of student protests in Bangladesh via WhatsApp to SAAG and other media organizations, briefly getting through the internet shutdown. “Hundreds killed. It’s a massacre,” he said tersely.

How do you archive absence? What is the journalist’s role when the subject is missing? How do you make apparent that which has disappeared? 1/6

41 years ago, Black July, a mass anti-Tamil pogrom in Sri Lanka, claimed thousands of Tamil lives, homes, shops and livelihoods. As we reflect on this day, we are confronted with the legacy of impunity and failure of successive governments to ensure accountability for past human rights violations. Read here our report on Black July and its relationship to continued cycles of violence. #BlackJuly #Remembrance #Accountability srilankacampaign.org/wp-content/upl…

#SriLanka apologises for forced cremations policy during pandemic; 276 Muslims who succumbed to the virus were cremated at that time, according to the govt. thehindu.com/news/internati… via @the_hindu

reposting this because everyone should see it. There’s no reason to claim ignorance. #BlackJuly

Editors Note: Our attention has been drawn to an error in the review of 'Anatomy of a Protest'. The mistake is regretted. The correction in full is on bit.ly/3yj51Of

Excavation activities at the Mullaitivu #Kokkuthoduvai mass grave site have been completed today, and the area has been partially sealed off following a court order from the Mullaitivu Magistrates Court.

In the third phase of excavation at the Mullaitivu #Kokkuthoduvai mass grave site, 12 human remains suspected to be members of the LTTE have been completely excavated in the last 10 days. In total, 52 human remains have been recovered across all three phases.

Today,on the 9th day of the third phase of the excavation at the Mullaitivu #Kokkuthoduvai Mass grave,two human remains have been completely exhumed. Additionally,a cyanide capsule suspected to belong to a member of the LTTE has been discovered.

47 human remains have been fully excavated and some more remains have been identified in the #Kokkuthoduvai mass grave site , which has been excavated in three phases over the last one year. Excavations are expected to be completed next week.

US Embassy Sri Lanka’s Political Officer, Matthew Hinson, visited the #Kokkuthoduvai mass grave site in Mullaitivu today.

Today,on the 8th day of the third phase of the excavation at the Mullaitivu #Kokkuthoduvai Mass grave,two human remains have been completely exhumed. Additionally,a number tag suspected to belong to a member of the LTTE has been discovered.

Three human remains suspected to female LTTE Members have been identified on the sixth day of the third phase of excavation at the Mullaitivu #Kokkuthoduvai mass grave. Gunshot bullets and fragments of fences used in military camps were also discovered during the excavation.

Today,on the 7th day of the third phase of the excavation at the Mullaitivu #Kokkuthoduvai Mass grave,three human remains have been exhumed. Additionally,a number plate suspected to belong to a member of the LTTE has been discovered.The number plate is marked as த வி பு ஒ-3035.

📽️ 'Anatomy of a Protest' screened in London The Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace & Justice (SLC), the International Working Group on Sri Lanka (IWG), and Retold World recently held a screening of the documentary film 'Anatomy of a Protest,' which took place at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. The film provided an in-depth exploration of the dynamics and narratives behind the Aragalaya protests in Sri Lanka in 2022. Read more ⬇️ tamilguardian.com/content/anatom… @SLcampaign @kamalakkannan

I think of this photograph often (and have not been able to trace the photographer or work out its provenance). Even after actively looking at thousands of images of the war over nearly a decade and passively over a lifetime, this one haunts me the most.

on the night of the 31st of May 1981, the Jaffna Public Library was burned down. It was one of the largest libraries in Southasia, comprising 97,000+ volumes that included irreplaceable archival texts. The Sri Lankan police & government-backed groups were responsible.

15 years ago, Sri Lanka deliberately starved the Tamil population. A senior United Nations official said they were amongst the worst cases of malnutrition he had ever seen. To date, no one has been held accountable. ___ remembermay2009.com

Remembering May 2009 #mullivaikal

Mullivaikkal women - poems translated from #Tamil by the ever generous .@ShashTrevett - edited by Cheran. 'On the wheel of life happiness and pain interchange. Yet for us the wheel seems stuck on permanent suffering.' 😢 #srilanka #lka