Sri Lankan intelligence photographs participants at TCSF 'Right to Remember' event
11 May 2015
Sri Lankan state intelligence took photographs of people participating in a discussion on the ‘Right to Remember’ at Jaffna Library on Sunday.
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11 May 2015Sri Lankan state intelligence took photographs of people participating in a discussion on the ‘Right to Remember’ at Jaffna Library on Sunday.
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| Photographs: Tamil Guardian |
The event, organised by the Tamil Civil Society Forum, looked to discuss issues on remembrance.
Lecturer in Law at Jaffna University and TCSF Co-Spokesperson, Guruparan Kumaravadivel, added that a plurality of narratives was possible within the collective memory of a political community using Tamil nationalism as an example.
Speaking on the blurred liens between perpetrators and victims, after highlighting that the Tamil people’s right to memory had been violated on 18th May and November 27th, human rights activist Ruki Fernando, said,
“One man’s Hero is another man’s villain. How do we reconcile the blurred lines between victim and perpetrator?”
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Attorney at Law and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) Bhavini Fonseka, noting that the previous government created their own official narrative for remembrance, added that there must be room different narratives.
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See also:
NPC member summoned by Sri Lanka police for involvement in commemorating Tamil war dead (04 May 2015)
Three arrests over Maaveerar Naal posters (26 Nov 2014)
Death threats posted in Jaffna university (24 Nov 2014)
Teachers' union condemn military presence at Jaffna Uni (14 Nov 2014)
Tamils remember Maaveerar in North-East despite SL military violence and intimidation(27 November 2013)
Escalating repression of Maaveerar remembrance met with Tamil defiance (26 Nov 2013)
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