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June 29, 2011 · 4:33 am

Death and Eternal Life: contrasting sensibilities in the face of corpses

Michael Roberts, 29 June 2011 When inserting Kalana Senaratne’s essay on “Killing Fields: Problems and Prospects” into my web site[1] I took the liberty of placing two photographs at the masthead, both centred on corpses from Eelam War IV (though one … Continue reading →

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July 9, 2011 · 3:31 am

Rocking the Boat: Children as Path-clearing Asylum-Seekers

Kate Legge, in The Weekend Australian Magazine, 10 July 2011, where the title is more succinct FRANCES Walton felt almost invincible after helping to mend victims of the earthquake that devastated northern Pakistan in October 2005. For two months she’d plied … Continue reading →

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February 20, 2013 · 8:49 pm

Tamil IDPs Today and Yesterday… Pudukuduyirippu and Beyond

Michael Roberts hijacking Dhaneshi Yatawara I: Preamble by Michael Roberts Dhaneshi Yatawara is a Sri Lankan reporter whom I do not know and have no contact with. I happened to be in Sri Lanka in April-June 2009 and collected news … Continue reading →

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