In SRI LANKA 12 May 2024
Article 8(2)(a)(i): Wilful killing
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Israel’s targeting of the “Shaban family home, killing all six members, two parents and their children”.[4]
Category Archives: political demonstrations
SSC: The Studies in Society & Culture Project, 1992 et seq
SSC PAMPHLET PROJECT
Some of you may remember this project in Sri Lanka in the 1990s directed towards making selected academic articles on the history & politics of Sri Lanka available to the English-reading public at affordable rates. My unreliable memory indicates that the personnel behind this enterprise were myself, Ananda Chittampalam, Willa Wickramasinghe and our engine, so to speak, was the press operated by Haris Hulugalla.
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Hot Press from Columbia University Today
Thalif Deen … in Email to Roberts, 1 April 2024**
At a press conference last night, New York City Mayor and his Police Commissioner tried to justify the police intervention against pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Columbia University claiming the protests have been corrupted by “outside agitators.”
I think this is a steaming pile of horse-shit.
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Jewish Nazis of Today in Powerful Places
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Shai Davidai, a Jewish researcher, is demonizing the students protesting at universities across the US against the genocide taking place in Gaza. He calls them “Terrorists”.
Students protest at an encampment supporting Palestinians on the Columbia University campus in New York City, April 25 [Caitlin Ochs/Reuters]
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Introducing Tambiah’s 1992 Book: “Buddhism Betrayed?”
Item in Tamil Nation ……………………………………… https://tamilnation.org/books/eelam/buddhismbetrayed
Given Budd
hism’s presumed non-violent philosophy, how can committed Buddhist monks and laypersons in Sri Lanka today actively take part in the fierce political violence of the Sinhalese against the Tamils?
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah’s Buddhism Betrayed? seeks to answer this question by looking closely at the past century of Sri Lankan history and tracing the development of Buddhism’s participation in such ethnic conflict and collective violence. Tambiah analyses the ways in which this participation has, over time come to alter the very meaning of Buddhism itself as a lived reality.
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Stark Images of Ethnic Retribution & Violence in Colombo, late July 1983
Photos selected by Michael Roberts & Rendered Accessible by David Sansoni of Sydney
Commencing with a ‘shot’ of passers-by and ordinary citizens assaulting and ridiculing a Tamil person at Galle Road in Colpetty
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Differentiation in the Foundations of Criticism in Recent Struggles in Sri Lanka
Abeysekara, Ananda …. presenting a synopsis of an article with the same title presented in the web journal Academia …………………. https://www.academia.edu/116523255/Buddhism_Politics_and_Criticism_in_a_Time_of_Struggle_in_Sri_Lanka
As I have argued elsewhere (Abeysekara 2002), the relation between religion and politics changes in historical debates. Debates themselves are forms of “criticism” in that debates change the questions of who and what constitute the parameters of religion and politics.[1] In that sense, I want to think about how the relation between religion, politics, and the state became the subject of debate during postwar Sri Lanka and ask what such a debate may say about our postcolonial politics and democracy itself.
The Sandahiru Saya under construction Continue reading
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Trump Following Hitler’s Playbook
Howard Bloom, Richard Koenigsberg & Chad Dougatz, at …. https://www.libraryofsocialscience.com/assets/audio/HBloom_Universe_022_Trump_as_Hitler
Just before the 2016 election, Richard Koenigsberg, Howard Bloom and Chad Dougatz presented this prophetic broadcast, which predicted everything occurring today.
Journalists, innocent Americans, having never experienced a phenomenon like Trump, could hardly have imagined what they were about to encounter.
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The Roberts Mss at Adelaide University Library
Michael Roberts
Recent Email Exchanges with Jane Russell of UK, who has one foot in England and two feet in island Sri Lanka, and a revived focus on George E De Silva (1870-1950) reminded me of the George E. Mss Memoirs in typescript which Jane had given me long ago. This led me to a long list which amounts to a treasure trove for those addressing a variety of topics in the history of Sri Lanka. I present the details before. Those wishing to pursue specifics must write to the Head of the Special Collections at the Barr Smith Library Adelaide University, not to me: samantha.farnsworth@adelaide.edu.au
It is my conjecture that the same corpus of material (or parts thereof) will also be part of the Roberts Collection at the National Library Services Board along Torrington Rd (beside the National Archives) in Colombo. They could initially seek specifics from Mr Welimuni Sunil who heads the institution: viz …
Welimuni Sunil … sunilnldsb@gmail.com
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A List of Israeli War Crimes in Palestine
This LISTING of Israeli War Crimes in Palestine by Yanis Varafoukis — clearly Greek in identity — was sent to me by Manel Fonseka in Colombo.
War crimes – Grave breaches of the Wilful killings of the 1949 Geneva Conventions
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