Sri Lankan Civil War
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The Weight of Memory: A Sri Lankan Reminder
Sbarrkum recounts what Sri Lanka’s civil war cost his own family and neighbours, including killed cousins, arrests and mobs. He asks that the conflict not be invoked lightly or abstractly…
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Sri Kumari my Late Partner
Sbarrkum shares a video of an Adivasi dance and remembers his late partner, whose parents were killed by the LTTE.
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Live Blogging: Documenting post-war ethno-religious violence in Sri Lanka
Live notes on Dr Farzana Haniffa’s lecture on post-war ethno-religious violence in Sri Lanka, covering the 1958 and 1983 anti-Tamil violence, Muslim concentration in the East, anti-Halal campaigns and the…
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The Tamil Diaspora in Norway
Excerpts from Øivind Fuglerud’s 1999 book Life on the Outside, on the Tamil diaspora in Norway and long-distance nationalism, posted with a link to the PDF rather than a review.
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Sri Lanka, Tamils, Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing?
Sbarrkum disputes accusations of genocide and ethnic cleansing against Sri Lanka’s government, citing 2012 census figures that most Sri Lankan Tamils live in Sinhalese-majority areas, and arguing the LTTE pushed…
