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weepingfireflies · 5 months
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Israel bombing the proclaimed “safe-zone” of Rafah is a genocidal tactic we have seen before;
In April 2009, the Sri Lankan military had proposed safe-zones to Tamil citizens, pushing them into the Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal region of North-Eastern Sri Lanka, near the Kilinochchi district. Upon urging Tamil refugees to this very small area of land on the coast, Sri Lanka bombed the location and surrounding areas 25 times. These bombings targeted hospitals and humanitarian operations dedicated to helping Tamil civilians displaced and wounded. Sri Lanka actually admitted to bombing the proposed safe zones, after images were leaked to the UN— but claimed the raids were aimed at Tamil Tiger militants and not civilians.
The Tamil resistance group, the Tamil Tigers, were also branded as an international Terrorist organisation by the United States, UN and Britain in 2001, for resisting anti-Tamil violence by the Sri Lankan Sinhalese state.
Israel funded Sri Lanka during the course of the Sri Lankan civil war— the Tamil genocide— providing military training and armament to Sri Lanka and thus knowingly aiding the genocide of over 40,000 Tamil people.
ISRAEL are repeating the same genocidal tactics they had aided in Sri Lanka just over 20 years ago.
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thewuzzy · 2 years
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tehtariks · 2 years
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sri lankan protestors throwing a pool party at their president’s house? good for them love this energy
(edit: and for those who were asking, women got in on the action too- including nuns protecting protestors)
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shaxza · 2 years
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bad week for PMs of island nations across the world
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the-storming-sea · 2 years
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we are LIVE here in world news watching the fall of (former) PMs all around the world and– wait, what’s this?
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IT’S SRI LANKA WITH A STEEL CHAIR
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psikonauti · 10 months
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Elephant in Yala, Sri Lanka
Photographed by Thilina Kaluthotage 
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gaymber · 2 years
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Okay so over the course of what like three days
1. British government collapses
2. No more Boris (special mention for Hugh Grant)
3. No more Shinzo Abe (special mention for Hideo Kojima)
4. Argentina's economy collapses overnight
5. Trump Jan 6 trials and mockery
6. Google has far too large a BTS day event (yes, the kpop band)
7. No internet in like half of canada (inc. not being able to use an ATM or call emergency lines)
8. Twitter suing Elon Musk for not buying Twitter
9. Kinnporsche ep 14 (trending 12 hrs before airing good job y'all)
10. Kazuki Takahashi, the Yu-Gi-Oh mangaka, died
11. Georgia guidestones destroyed
12. Sri Lanka Also having an economic collapse and storming the palace as a result (so no more that president) (also set the place on fire?)
13. Angola's former president died
14. Supernatural finally reaches it's target audience because of 'The Boys' finale
15. Former Mexican president (who commited massacres?) died
There's some real Nov 5 energy in this Wendy's tonight
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arinaborevich · 15 days
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13.12.2023 | Beautiful flowers in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. We will come back!
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hussyknee · 2 years
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So...what seems like the entire voting public of Sri Lanka is out on the streets today to demand the President and his government step down, despite the lack of public transport due to the fuel crisis. People are forgoing trains and buses to walk to the protests on foot, and the streets of the capital are already thronging with them, despite massive police and military presence. They're already boxing in them in by the thousands and attacking them with tear gas and water canons. Unfortunately this is shit is old hat by now, even with the weapons-grade tear gas they're using, because state brutality has been a mainstay over the last three months of massive protests. Protestors are even now overwhelming cops in riot gear and hammering against barricades. There's simply too many of them of hold back any more, and I'm guessing supplies of crowd dispersal equipment are running low after three straights months and an empty Treasury.
EDIT: HOLY FUCK THE CROWDS. THEY LITERALLY BUSTED DOWN ALL THE BARRICADES AND SCALED OVER THE PRESIDENT'S MANSION.
EDIT 2: IT'S LIKE THIS IN EVERY SINGLE CITY. PEOPLE ARE RUSHING THE COPS THROUGH THE TEAR GAS, BUSTING DOWN THE BARRICADES.
EDIT 3: THEY GOT HOLD OF A WATER CANNON AND TOOK IT APART LMAOOOOO
EDIT 4: This post got huge so go here to get all the updates.
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bi-the-way-drbloom · 2 years
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The prime minister of Sri Lanka just announced his resignation
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It's a bad time to be the PM of an island nation
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rubiscodisco · 2 years
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in the past 48 hours we’ve had boris johnson resign, shinzo abe assassinated, bong bong marcos get covid, and the presidential palace of sri lanka get stormed by protesters
bring out the guillotine, besties! waiting to see whose head (of state) rolls next
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singinginthecar · 6 months
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israel saying that they're only bombing mosques because hamas is using them "to store weapons" and destroying universities because "they're being used as training facilities for hamas"..... is like watching exactly what the sri lankan government did when they carried out a genocide on eelam tamil ppl in northern sri lanka in 2009. this is the same old genocidal playbook. sri lanka called the tamil resistance fighters a bunch of terrorists too. they wiped out hundreds of thousands of ppl - resistance fighters and civilians alike under the pretext of "only" targeting the "terrorists". sri lanka bombed schools saying that "terrorists" were using them to train their "youth army" meanwhile innocent school going children were blown apart. they bombed civilian shelters on purpose saying that terrorists were using these places to hide. same goes for hospitals as well. anyone who's been paying attention to resistance movements around the world knows israel's playbook like the back of their hand. because we've seen this before. and we've seen the innocent lives that it costs. we've been seeing this all play out again and again, only now in a different part of the world... and like before, the world watches while letting it all happen. this breaks my heart. truly.
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webdiggerxxx · 3 months
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Israel has thus fully embraced the “war on terror” and richly profited from it. One of the most successful though bloody counterinsurgency battles of the early twenty-first century was the Sri Lankan government’s destruction of the Tamil Tigers militant group. Israel played a key, though largely unpublicized, part in Colombo’s successful campaign in a civil war that killed and disappeared more than 200,000 people, mostly Tamils, over a quarter-century that ended in 2009. Israel sold Kfir fighter jets and trained the Special Task Force, a brutal unit of the Sri Lankan police. Sri Lanka borrowed the Israeli playbook during the last stages of the civil war and ignored calls by NGOs, human rights organizations, and foreign governments to cease violence. The military stopped when the Tamil Tigers were completely decimated and Velupillai Prabhakaran, its leader, killed. Israel also helped generations of Sinhalese politicians build and maintain Sinhalese enclaves in the north and east of Sri Lanka, areas where most Tamils live. The aim was to create buffer zones around Tamil-majority areas and establish an unofficial occupation of Tamil territory. These plans continued after 2009 and Sinhala colonization has never stopped. These ideas were directly taken from Israel’s presence in the West Bank, where Palestinian sovereignty is denied with numerous fortified Jewish colonies. Israel signed a US$50 million deal with Sri Lanka in 2021 to upgrade the country’s Kfir jets.
Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
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wintercorrybriea · 1 year
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Geoffrey Bawa’s house number 11 in Colombo, Sri Lanka
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