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Memorialisation

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Colombo, Memorialisation, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Transitional Justice, War Crimes

From Mullivaikkal to Nakba and Ballymurphy, Truth is the First Victim

Sri Lanka is grappling with its worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. But amid this serious economic situation, Tamils on the island and around there world are going to commemorate…

Thamil Ananthavinayagan Thamil Ananthavinayagan on 05/18/202205/18/2022
Batticaloa, Culture, Economy, Human Rights, Identity, Jaffna, Memorialisation, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Refusing a Neoliberal Peace in The Incomplete Thombu

Today Sri Lanka faces its worst economic crisis since independence. In the coming months, people’s hardships will only worsen as more austerity is forced on them. The present crisis is a result…

Nimanthi Perera-Rajasingham Nimanthi Perera-Rajasingham on 04/04/202204/04/2022
Jaffna, Memorialisation, Moving Images, Transitional Justice, Writers Under Siege

The Brother Who Never Came Back: 15 Years Since the Disappearance of Subramaniam Ramachandran

“Even today I believe he will return but if he doesn’t, let him remain missing. If you want to report that he disappeared on the 15th, you can do that. We would…

Selvaraja Rajasegar Selvaraja Rajasegar on 02/16/202202/17/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Memorialisation, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Desmond Tutu – An Inspiration and Challenge for Sri Lanka

Desmond Tutu was a black, South African, Christian male but in a world where colour, caste, class, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, sexuality and gender matter, he transcended all of that to be a…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 12/31/202112/31/2021
Colombo, Culture, Development, Identity, Longing and Belonging, Memorialisation, Peace and Conflict

Layla Gonaduwa: Exploring Memory, Home and Migration Through Art

For three months Layla Gonaduwa, a self taught, interdisciplinary artist, travelled around Sri Lanka to explore the concept of memory, home and migration. She explored symbiotic and discordant relationships between within communities…

Groundviews Groundviews on 10/19/202110/19/2021
Districts, Memorialisation, Pandemic

The Sri Lanka COVID-19 Memorial

It proves a firm reminder of the magnitude of loss and it is the realisation behind the creation of a digital space of memorialisation and remembrance for those Sri Lanka has lost…

Groundviews Groundviews on 10/06/202110/27/2021
Memorialisation, Peace and Conflict, Post-War, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Mullaivayakal and the Meaning of Justice, 12 Bitter Years On

The first five months of 2009 brought immense and unprecedented pain to the people of northern Sri Lanka, and to their many Tamil relatives outside the country who looked on and received…

Alan Keenan Alan Keenan on 05/18/202105/18/2021
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Human Rights, Issues, justice, Memorialisation, Poetry

Richard

Animals continue to crack in Sri Lanka, Richard. Lions don’t exist in the natural state, nor tigers roam through the brush. Elephants, yes, are still around, mostly straggly survivors in an orphanage…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 02/18/202102/20/2021
Human Rights, Jaffna, Memorialisation, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Evoking the Undead Tiger, the Eternal Bogeyman: The Consequences of Forgetting the Past

“An alleged former combatant who was “rehabilitated”. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is the armed group that the Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa government claim they defeated in May 2009….

Ambika Satkunanathan Ambika Satkunanathan on 01/10/202101/10/2021
Human Rights, Jaffna, Memorialisation, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

We Will Not Forget

We will not forget Mullivaikkal, the shot, the strafed, the scissored, and the cluster-bombed. We will   not forget holes in roofs, holes in water tanks, holes in heads. We will not…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 01/09/202101/11/2021
Colombo, Human Rights, Memorialisation, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

One Man’s Hero is Another Man’s Enemy

Maaveerar Naal, otherwise known as Heroes day, is celebrated on November 27 to remember those who lost their lives fighting for the LTTE. While this day has come to be a highly…

Sarah Kabir Sarah Kabir on 11/27/202011/27/2020
Arts and Theatre, Cartoon, Colombo, Culture, Memorialisation, Pandemic, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Satire

Corona with the Big Brothers

It is increasingly evident that the lasting impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic will not be merely health related. In the early stages of government efforts to contain the virus and over the…

Vikalpa Vikalpa on 11/02/202011/02/2020
Memorialisation, Peace and Conflict

Remembering Victims of Enforced Disappearances: Looking Back at Thenuwara’s Exhibition

Ten years ago, activist and contemporary artist Chandraguptha Thenuwara created an exhibition called The Vigil and Other Works, dedicated to remembering the disappeared and to the families who are forced to live…

Groundviews Groundviews on 08/29/202009/02/2020
Easter Sunday Terrorist Attacks, Gampaha, Memorialisation, Terrorism

Remembrance and Tribute to Victims of Terrorism

Today is the International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to Victims of Terrorism. In Sri Lanka, the word terrorism embodies an experience that stretches over 30 years, the most recent being the…

Groundviews Groundviews on 08/21/202009/03/2020
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Memorialisation, Peace and Conflict, Reconciliation, Remember the Riots

Thenuwara’s At/Most/Fear: A Virtual Testament in Times of a Pandemic

For the past 22 years, activist and renowned contemporary artist Chandraguptha Thenuwara has been memorialising the horrific period of July 1983 through paintings, drawings, sculpture and installation. This year, undeterred by the…

Groundviews Groundviews on 07/24/202007/24/2020

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