Sri Lanka: witness to atrocity
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Film maker Callum Macrae has made two influential films about Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: why war crimes went unchecked
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This film is the follow-up to Channel 4’s 2011 documentary cataloguing the final year of the civil war in Sri Lanka.
AWL London forum: socialists and the war in Sri Lanka
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Date:
19 February, 2009 - 19:30 - 21:15
Location:
The Union Tavern, 52 Lloyd Baker Street (Farringdon or Kings Cross tube)
Description:
The Sri Lankan government's war on the Tamils, stepped up at the end of last year, has left many thousands dead - yet the British left, which has rightly mobilised on a large scale in support of the Palestinians, has had relatively little to say. We need a working-class anti-war movement that opposes capitalist and imperialist wars around the world, not just those conflicts that fit into the Afghanistan-Iraq-Palestine master narrative of the current mainstream anti-war movement.
We will be discussing the origins and nature of the conflict, where Sri Lanka fits into global politics, how we can support the Tamils' struggle for self-determination, and building links with Sri Lanka's socialist and working-class movements, movements which have an inspiring revolutionary history.
Speaker: Robin Sivapalan (Workers' Liberty)
Exposing the "Sri Lankan option"
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A recent report by the International Crisis Group (ICG) documents the appalling brutality of the Sinahala-nationalist Sri Lankan government when, in 2009, it carried out a “military solution” to a 26-year conflict with the Tamil population.
Sri Lanka: Left must stand firm for consistent democracy: self-determination for the Tamils!
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The civil war that has raged, on and off, for over 25 years in Sri Lanka seems to be approaching a horrible endgame, with the remaining fighters of the Tamil minority cornered into a small area by the Sri Lankan army.
Stop the war on the Tamil people!
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The war in Sri Lanka has reached a grim new intensity. The Sinhala (Sri Lanka’s ethnic majority) chauvinist Government has set about the final stages of what they call the elimination of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers), the group who have waged an armed struggle for Tamil independence for three decades.
Solidarity! This week. With the Tamils, with Visteon.
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Tuesday, 7 April, morning: Hi campers: It's all going on from where i'm standing, my head can barely take it, people on such a scale, from all different struggles, are taking action these days.
Solidarity with the Tamil people
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Earlier this month a meeting in Chennai in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, sponsored by the United Socialist Party (sister party of the Socialist Party in the UK), launched an international Sri Lanka solidarity campaign.
Sri Lanka: thousands of Tamils face death
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The Sri Lankan Army onslaught against the Tamils continues unabated with the indiscriminate shelling of civilians, including in the government declared safe zones.
Sri Lanka: an onslaught to crush the Tamils
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For most Tamils in the world today, the events of the last month have been devastating but they must also have been expected.