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Writers Under Siege

Writers Under Siege

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Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Writers Under Siege

Belonging

The island belongs to centipede, rat, butterfly, lots of species each with their own habitats, and supervising all arable and fallow land the president king. Minorities may enjoy clean living in freshly…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 06/30/200903/08/2011
Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance, Trincomalee, Vavuniya, Writers Under Siege

Einstein was a Refugee

Refugees are sometimes active have agency they Leave, Flee, Sneak Flow over boundary lines unchecked like rivers they Escape, Hide Cross territories they Flood places like unnatural disasters are associated with Asylum…

Vivimarie VanderPoorten Vivimarie VanderPoorten on 04/05/200903/08/2011
Human Rights, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance, Writers Under Siege

Three poems by Sivamohan Sumathy

[Editors note: These poems respond to Indran Amirthanayagam’s poems here, here and here. They are both part of the Writers Under Siege collection on .] 1 i am not a writer i…

Sivamohan Sumathy Sivamohan Sumathy on 03/22/200903/08/2011
Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Writers Under Siege

Dancing In Sympathy (Mullaitivu)

Six boys from Hindu College will enter the scene from Stage Left, an equal number of girls from Muslim Ladies Stage Right. They will shake their bodies, slide and writhe, and be…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 03/22/200903/08/2011
Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Writers Under Siege

Equal Treatment

Citizens of Killinochchi and Mullaitivu fled before our liberators arrived. They live for the moment in nearby jungle under a canopy punctured by shells. Some moved to a safe zone demarcated by…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 03/22/200903/08/2011
Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Writers Under Siege

Forgetting, Mullaitivu

The town is full of stray dogs, cows, ghosts, buildings pockmarked, unhinged, open to wind and rain. Soldiers patrol on foot. Trucks and tanks rumble through the center. Rebels took all the…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 03/22/200903/08/2011

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