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Maryam retweeted
I believe it is both scary and sad how we have become remarkably skilled at witnessing the suffering of others without allowing it to interrupt the comfort of our own everyday lives.
Maryam retweeted
Amazing how much of our economy revolves around the exponential growth of a technology that may or may not be involved in massive systemic disruptions while it makes people insane and illiterate with basically no recognizable upsides for most people
Maryam retweeted
they are intentionally bombing hospitals and targeting palestinian healthcare workers to subject an entire population to mass disability on top of mass displacement. and preventing people from recovering by destroying their treatment options. it’s absolutely evil.
Maryam retweeted
I broke down while filming these scenes. I couldn't bear the scale of the suffering unfolding before my eyes. I tried my best to amplify these families' voices, but what I witnessed was beyond words.
Children soaked, tents completely flooded, and families left exposed to the cold and rain. The world is not just witnessing this tragedy; it is complicit through its silence.
Watch the report for yourselves.
Dragnet's first dispatch from the besieged Gaza Strip: Dragnet contributor @Tamer_Alnoaizy spent hours walking through tents in Gaza's flooded displacement camps, where Palestinians whose homes and neighborhoods were destroyed by Israeli bombs are now sleeping in freezing water.
Maryam retweeted
I grieve the death of one of Gaza's few remaining general surgeons today. Dr Rizq Abu Shaeera was respected by many who worked alongside him, providing surgical care in unspeakably harsh conditions at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, the target of today's lethal airstrikes.
Maryam retweeted
To implement successful policies in Sri Lanka, one has to understand the nature of the economy. Almost 30% of the employed population are small-scale informal entrepreneurs, on top of another 30% informal employees.
Taxation has to capture the high earners among informal entrepreneurs. But this requires a significant increase in IRD capacity.
Maryam retweeted
Israel to release body of child they starved to death in prison.
Israel to release body of Palestinian teen who died malnourished in prison haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-1…
Maryam retweeted
It is the duty of professional journalists to report and hold power to account. @anuradisanayake and his current administration have benefited from reporters in #SriLanka doing just that. To now propose a law that could impede their work is beyond inadvisable.
I say this because select clauses of the Prevention of Organised Crimes (POC) Bill will cripple professional journalism and stifle investigative reporting. The bill does not specifically refer to journalists or media. But vaguely worded offences and sweeping police powers have implications for routine journalistic work.
Significantly, the bill includes no exemption for public-interest reporting. If passed into law, court reporting—a basic and universal component of journalism—would need explicit approval.
Under Section 14(3), anyone who prints or publishes any matter about any court proceeding concerning a “serious crime under this Act” without the court’s prior permission faces up to two years’ imprisonment, a fine, or both.
This is such a big shift for crime and court reporters that it is near impossible to fathom. It is the journalist that requires permission prior to printing or publishing. The bill lays out no procedure for the judiciary.
sundaytimes.lk/261108/news/o…
Maryam retweeted
“Died malnourished” is the cleansing of the fact that he was starved to death and his ravaged body was littered with scabies. All by design.
Israel to release body of Palestinian teen who died malnourished in prison haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-1…
Maryam retweeted
"A judge who oversaw the investigation into his death determined that he had "likely been starved." Israeli authorities held his body for more than a year and a half, even though it was no longer needed for investigative purposes."
Israel to release body of Palestinian teen who died malnourished in prison haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-1…
Maryam retweeted
Israel does control entry of all materials into Gaza, however, and is the reason why more than a million people are living in tents on the lowest-lying fraction of Gaza's land, with zero homes rebuilt, a year into the "ceasefire".
Maryam retweeted
A year into a "ceasefire" nobody should be living in makeshift tents. This isn't a humanitarian crisis, it is an impunity crisis.
🚨HORRIBLE: Around 70,000 displacement tents across Gaza have been flooded, leaving thousands of families exposed to the harsh elements.
Floodwaters have also damaged shops, cafés, streets, and already-damaged buildings sheltering displaced families, compounding the suffering caused by Israel’s genocidal war.
Maryam retweeted
Palestinians in Gaza are still being killed daily. Israel is still preventing aid and essential supplies from entering. The engineered famine is worsening.
And you’d struggle to find any sufficient coverage of this in the mainstream media.
Maryam retweeted
Pallakkadu Garbage heap has been a national shame. EU funded the garbage Management Center at the site in 2008. Mismanagement killed the Center in little time and our garbage eating jumbos are a globally infamous sight. Not just this one, there's another place in Dambulla too.
Maryam retweeted
the OMP’s records reveal thousands of missing names & unexplained discrepancies in official tallies of Sri Lanka’s disappeared: truth-seeking mechanism has become another instrument of impunity? himalmag.com/disappearances-… by @francesharris0n + Yasmin Sooka
Maryam retweeted
delighted to be collaborating with @shamara4w and Itihas itihas.lk/ on this workshop intended for those preparing to apply for a PhD. Please do share!
Dr. Vindhya Buthpitiya and I are running a workshop in Colombo in December to support prospective PhD applicants to UK institutions.
Details in the CfP below! Please share with anyone who might be interested. It is free of charge.
Apply here: forms.gle/XkzZvBVeJpHcYCDK9
@vindib_
