The 15th anniversary of the end of the Sri Lankan civil war brings reminders of the horror that unfolded, particularly during the war’s final months–of the Mullivaikkal massacre on May 18, 2009. Tamil
On 18 May 2009, the war in Sri Lanka came to a bloody, murderous end on the beaches of Mullivaikkal, after months of brutal violence meted out by the Sri Lankan armed forces.
There is neither sea nor wind for us to dissolve the ashes proclaim an end and close our eyes. –Poem by Cheran Rudhramoorthy from In a Time of Burning 13 years ago, the Sri Lankan
May 18 marks the end of the Sri Lankan civil war. On this day we remember the many civilians who were killed at Mullivaikkal in the final stages of the war. In the final
A March post on Culture in Peril, titled 'Remembering to Remember at Holocaust Museums,' discussed the topic of memory and its crucial role in effecting proper negotiation of tragic negative events. The key
In January 2009 Lasantha Wickrematunge, a prominent journalist and editor of a leading newspaper in Sri Lanka was assassinated. Anticipating his own death, he wrote an editorial, which was published three days after
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