Anthropologist of War and Pictures. Conflict. Politics. Resistance. Visual Culture. International Development. Sri Lanka. https://xitter.cf/t.co/f3kfu55O8r
Colombo / Jaffna / St Andrews
Joined February 2017
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Today marks Sri Lanka’s Day of Commemoration for the Disappeared.
For @HimalSouthasian, Yasmin Sooka and @francesharris0n (@itjpsl) examine Sri Lanka’s Office on Missing Persons, tracing discrepancies between its published lists and records from earlier commissions of inquiry.
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Residents in Ampara District living in fear due to increase in wild elephants entering villages following the paddy harvest.
Movement of wild elephants has risen significantly in areas including Mawadippalli, Sammanthurai, Karaitivu, Nintavur, Sainthamaruthu, and Kalmunai. 👇👇
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Two sub-inspectors and a constable have been suspended following the custodial death of a suspect at Homagama police station over the weekend. Torture in custody continues despite assurances from the authorities and repeated censure by international rights fora.
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More than 55 Tamils including young children, women & the elderly who were killed 39 years ago by Indian 'peacekeeping' forces stormed the Kokuvil Hindu College in Jaffna, are being commemorated with flowers and oil lamps; justice for these victims has yet to be served.
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A protest on Vap Full Moon Poya day & preceding day demanding removal of 'Tissa' Buddhist temple established through military force on land forcibly seized from Tamils.
Tamil community has held protests on 42 separate Poya days against this temple, which remains unregistered.
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Around 40 stranded Iranian sailors aboard U.S.-sanctioned oil tankers anchored just outside #SriLanka’s territorial waters received urgent medical treatment in the island nation on Saturday (October 24, 2026)
thehindu.com/news/internatio… via @the_hindu
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BREAKING: Brazil’s left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won the presidential run-off against right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro on Sunday, the electoral authority said, securing a fourth non-consecutive term.
🟠 LIVE updates: aje.news/vs1cfu
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'At Jaffna Customs office, books dealing with political subjects get singled out for scrutiny. The presence of words such as “war,” “military,” “gun,” “Tigers,” and “mass grave” is enough to detain a book.'
- A joint appeal by the Eelam Tamil writers. kirishanth.com/?p=3925
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AI labs: building a monster
Technician looks up: "Guys, see this monster I'm building? Yeah? I’m just warning you about it, ok!?”
Technician goes back to building monster
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Yatharthan's translated his post into Sinhala as well yatharthan.com/3104-2/
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Customs said they don't have a list of confiscated books over the years when @ExaminerLK RTI'ed for them. There's effectively a set of banned books, but nobody knows for sure what they are.
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Yatharthan has a detailed writeup of what happened on his blog at yatharthan.com/23101-2/
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Adding further to the list of censored Tamil books, on Thursday (22), Sri Lanka custom officials in Jaffna refused to release 30 copies of the Tamil novel "Thorai" by Pradeep Kunaradnam alias Yatharthan & informed the author to obtain a "permission from the Ministry of Defence".
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Court in Jaffna urged to reject Professor Raj Somadeva's recent report on Sri Lanka’s largest mass grave, which "appear to be inconsistent with, or materially depart from, the findings, opinions and conclusions contained in the previous reports" submitted by the same archeologist
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In the midst of violent repression of student protestors, she compared the language of campus protests to WMDs - a morally repugnant, intellectually obtuse essay.
lmao….not Zadie Smith signing this Sally Rooney letter as if we don’t all remember Smith’s 2024 @newyorker essay criticizing pro-Palestinian student protestors when it actually mattered. girl, pls, try cleansing your soul some other way🙄
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truly honored to have had my recent review essay on books by Pankaj Mishra and Esmat Elhalaby for @HimalSouthasian translated into Arabic by @I_Sharif13 and Roba Salibi 🙏🏾
ترجمتُ والصديقة ربا الصليبي مقالة مهمة للكاتب راول راو @thariel تتناول كتاب بانكاج ميشرا "العالم بعد غزة" بنظرة نقدية ثاقبة تكشف عيوبه وقصوره عن التضامن الذي يزعمه، كما تلفت الانتباه لكتاب عصمت الحلبي عن تاريخ فلسطين والهند وما فيه من نماذج تداخل ثقافي وتضامن مناهض للاستعمار.
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Court receives first forensic report on the findings of Sri Lanka’s largest recorded mass grave.
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A joint press conference by writers, journalists & trade unionists is NOW in progress at Dr. NM Perera Centre in Colombo, calling on Sri Lankan authorities to respect the recent ruling made by @HRCSriLanka & release Tamil writer Theepachelvan's books seized by Sri Lanka Customs.
UPDATE: 1/2
On Monday (12), @HRCSriLanka issued a ruling that by detaining 2 books by Tamil author P. Theepachelvan, Sri Lanka Customs has violated "fundamental right to the freedom to enjoy &
promote his own culture" & ordered to "forthwith release all the copies."
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🚨The first expert report on the findings at Sri Lanka’s largest recorded mass grave was handed over to court today. The 190 page report by Prof Raj Somadeva and Archaeologist Anusha Wanninayake analyses the findings at Chemmani where 110 days of excavations recovered 583 bodies.
