திருகோணமலை மாணவர் ஐவர் படுகொலை: நீதியின்றி தொடரும் 19 ஆண்டுகள்... மனோகரன் ரஜீகர் (பி. 22.09.1985) யோகராஜா ஹேமச்சந்திரா (பி. 04.03.1985) லோகிதராஜா ரோகன் (பி. 07.04.1985) தங்கதுரை சிவானந்தா (பி. 06.04.1985) சண்முகராஜா கஜேந்திரன் (பி. 16.09.1985) #lka #SriLanka #Trinco5

All the basic infrastructures of life obliterated, the population decimated, maimed, starved.

Congratulations to the PhD candidate in Gaza whose PhD I examined today, online. A fine piece of work. A PhD is hard in normal circumstances. When your teachers, supervisor & Vice Chancellor are all murdered during scholasticide, the process is unimaginably difficult. أهنئك

SL pays highest revenue % as domestic interest globally – a staggering 80% which dwarfs Ghana, ranking second at 44%. So 80% of tax burden that plunged 25% of population into poverty was enriching the financial elite. ft.lk/columns/Fiscal…

Book reading of 'Mullivaikkal Stories' (Sinhala) (published by ACPR ) will be held on Feb 5th from 3 -5 pm at Guru Madura, Colombo. Moderator - Sanjula Pietersz Introduction - Sampath Samarakoon Panelists - Joseph Stalin/ Kathyana Amarasinghe/ Fr.Saththivel

In 1991, our house was destroyed due to violence, and we have still not received any compensation. Since 1996, my father, from the age of 58, kept asking and following up, but after struggling for years, he passed away in 2024 at the age of 86. Meanwhile, those who looted the

Tamill mother Velusami Mari fondly known as Mariymma - a member of Sri Lanka's longest ongoing protest in search for the truth about the forcibly disappeared - passed away without knowing the fate of her son Velusami Sivakumar who was last seen during the final stages of the war.

This is the view from my tent today. I think the world forgot how much trauma Gaza is going through. What we saw and what we're still experiencing is nothing a human should ever have to deal with. Regardless, we continue to live. Ramadan Mubarak 🌙

The #privatisation of state-funded #HigherEducation in #SriLanka takes many guises. As commercialisation creeps and burrows with consent and collusion by the #state, Kaushalya Perera (KaushiP 🦋) & Hasini Lecamwasam unmask a few. polity.lk/unveiling-priv…

🚨PUBLICATION🚨 So excited to share my latest article with AJPS, titled "An anatomy of worldmaking: Sukarno and anticolonialism from post-Bandung Indonesia" (open access)! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Who is in the presidential committee? Is the full 28 Vol report already in #Tamil & #Sinhala or is it going to be translated now? Can the 28 vols. (in English?) be published today on the President's website (as we only have the main 167 page report)?

Israel just committed *the largest child massacre in its history*, according to Haaretz. Two hundred Palestinian children murdered in a single day, with direct support from the US and UK, and zero outrage from Western media. What stage of barbarism is this...

Meron Rappaport in +972 Magazine:

Will be having this discussion with the brilliant Hope Bee at the University of Jaffna on May 24 - please do come if you're around and interested 🙏🏾

#SriLanka: 'Pride Dansal' in Batticaloa, where queer activists and allies distributed soft drinks to nearly 1000 people! 🌈 "We are asking for understanding; to live without violence and discrimination; for equal rights".

I'll be talking about the Mahaweli Development Project and some of my research tomorrow at SSA - please come if you're interested and have time 🙏🏾

Today marks 44 years since the Jaffna Public Library was burned down by the Sri Lankan state. More than 97,000 books, manuscripts, and rare works of literature were lost—an act of cultural genocide that has left an irreplaceable void. For 44 long years, not a single person has

exactly. remember how R2P spoke of (global south ofc) sovereignty as conditional, a 'bargain' with the international community, something that could be lost if it was abused. if this were a genuinely universal discourse, isr@el would have forfeited its sovereignty by now

FA has documented a pattern of Israeli attacks on areas into which they have previously instructed civilians in Gaza to evacuate. Our research confirms that the Israeli military carried out multiple attacks in areas towards which civilians had been directed, either on the same

For Al Jazeera English, I spoke to professor Raj Somadeva leading the Chemmani excavation. He revealed to us that *three babies* were among the 19 bodies found in the mass grave. And he has not been paid "a single cent" for working on an excavation in Mannar. aljazeera.com/features/2025/…