Rani Moorthy, Tamil Sri Lankan actress, discusses cultural dislocation, civil war, and her new one woman show.
BY SAMIRA SHACKLE 05 APRIL 2012
What impact did the civil war and the subsequent defeat of the LTTE have on the Tamil diaspora?
Rani Moorthy.
For those of us who did not grow up in Sri Lanka and especially did not grow up during the war, being displaced and bearing witness to the death and devastation has always been a complicated mix of emotions. Being a pacifist, I could not understand the relentless fighting force that the LTTE cadres evolved into. Intellectually and politically however, I could empathise with the feeling that lives and the entire Tamil culture was being threatened by hatred. We had to witness at first cultural genocide and then all out genocide. In the end you feel grief and mourning and this has made way to a feeling of a deep sense of injustice at how Tamil civilians were exposed to the most horrific atrocities from both sides and the virtual silence of the international community. That is particularly chilling. Full Story>>>