Comments on: Of rape, killings, impunity and our Collective Amnesia https://groundviews.org/2016/03/07/of-rape-killings-impunity-and-our-collective-amnesia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=of-rape-killings-impunity-and-our-collective-amnesia Journalism for Citizens Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: Kailas Pillai https://groundviews.org/2016/03/07/of-rape-killings-impunity-and-our-collective-amnesia/#comment-60671 Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:18:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=19193#comment-60671 One
may be forgiven for “real” episodes of amnesia but not pretend-amnesia. When the war ended in May 2009, the then Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the Lankan Defence Ministry website claimed that not a single civilian life was lost in the final week of the civil war. He forgot that Eelam Tamils are humans.

Retd Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera claimed in “The Island” of 06 March 2016 “Even during the recent Age of Terrorism, 99% of the men/women killed/maimed were Sinhalese…………”. Is this amnesia?

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