Sent to me by my Peradeniya Uni Mate, Gamini Seneviratne …. HANNAH EINBINDER’S Passionate Protest & Her Condemnation of ISRAEL’S Genocidal Warfare ….. & …….. SHE is Jewish American
Category Archives: atrocities
Slaughter of Palestinians …. Again
A Sri Lankan American, in an Item entitled “Slaughter of Palestinians”
As the world wakes up to the harrowing images of children slain by Israeli bombs across the entire Gaza Strip AGAIN, we cannot bear witness to global leaders JUST… DOING…. NOTHING. This is an acceleration of the genocide that Israel is committing against the Palestinian people as a whole. We already failed to prevent it and our Governments have an even greater obligation to stop it now.
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) – March 18, 2025
https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1901964025950310842
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Palestine Tomorrow: A Bold Forecast from A Lankan Seer
A Sri Lankan Seer ……. “Compatible neighbors”
Arabs and Jews lived in relative peace in Palestine before 1948.
The Zionist movement was established by European Jews and Israel (which became a state in 1948) was a settler colonization project that served as a garrison state in the oil rich middle east for protecting the interests of the Western imperial power Britain and later USA.
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Ranil’s Responses to Al-Jazeera’s Hostile Questions
Darshanie Ratnawalli
So, have you read Ranil’s Al Jazeera interview?
Has anyone who is expressing an opinion on Ranil’s performance at his interview with Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan ingested the full content of this media circus? Even people like Himal Kotelawala (sympathetic to RW), Lakshan Wickrema (derisive of RW) and Crystal Koelmeyer (sympathetic to RW), whom I have so far read on this subject had not.
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Sachs on USA’s Hegemonic Imperialism
An Email NOTE from Ajit Varuna-Candappa sent to his Royal College classmates, mid-February 2024
https://youtu.be/ZUbBU0OqCgE?
Dear Tony & all my classmates at Royal of the 57 Group.
We have known each other for 59 years since we entered Royal at age 10+ in 1957 & some since age 6+ from Royal Primary days. Here is a 15 minutes of absolute irrefutable evidence that we’ve been ‘jived’ by both colonial & imperialist forces at first and now a hegemonic, war mongering frankly psychopathic state called America.
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Migration Scams Rampant in Sri Lanka
Niruni de Mel in The Island, 16 February 2024 … where the title runs thus: “Scammed and Stranded: The Dark Side of Sri Lanka’s Migration Industry”
A fisherman from the quiet town of Mannar sold his mother’s, sisters’, and sister-in-law’s jewelry and, with a loan from his brother, paid a migration agent Rs. 12.8 million for a Canadian visa. Months later, he discovered the agent had vanished, leaving his family in crippling debt and his dreams in ruins. His story is not unique. Across Sri Lanka, countless desperate individuals fall prey to fraudulent migration schemes, losing their life savings in the process.
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Kittu, Tamil Tiger Commander, reaches the Heights of Wikipedia
WIKIPEDIA Item: … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kittu_(Tamil_militant)
Colonel Kittu (Tamil militant)
| Born | S. Krishnakumar
2 January 1960 |
| Died | 16 January 1993 (aged 33) |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Years active | 1978 –1993 |
| Organization | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
Sathasivam Krishnakumar (Tamil: சதாசிவம் கிருஸ்ணகுமார்; 2 January 1960 – 16 January 1993; commonly known by the nom de guerre Kittu) was a Sri Lankan Tamil rebel and leading member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a separatist Tamil militant organisation in Sri Lanka.
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Kittu as LTTE Commander: A Violent, Tempestuous History
DBS Jeyaraj in The Daily Mirror, 20 January 2025, where the title reads “How Tiger ‘Col’ Kittu lost a leg when a bomb was thrown at him in Jaffna”
Former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Jaffna District Commander Sathasivamillai Krishnakumar alias ‘Col’ Kittu was regarded as the uncrowned king of Jaffna in the mid-eighties of the twentieth century. The greater part of Jaffna peninsula was under LTTE control then. This state of affairs [received] a rude shock when an unknown person lobbed a bomb into the vehicle driven by Kittu. The incident which rocked Jaffna in 1987 resulted in the Tiger commander losing a leg. The third part of this article focuses primarily on matters related to that explosive incident.
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An Epitaph For Lasantha Wickrematunge
Sabanayagam Varagunam in Daily Mirror, 8 January 2024, where the title reads “Lasantha Wickrematunge: A National Hero’s Enduring Legacy” … with highlighting here being the imprint of The Editor, Thuppahi
Wickrematunge’s courage was not merely a product of his profession; it was an intrinsic part of his being
January 8 marked a dark and somber day in Sri Lanka’s history, as our thoughts went back to Lasantha Wickrematunge, the fearless journalist and an indefatigable champion of human rights, who fell victim to a brutal assassination. Sixteen years have passed since his untimely demise, but Wickrematunge’s adherence to justice and human rights cemented his status as a national hero that continues to inspire generations.
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