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How can anyone claim this current election in Sri Lanka is democratic when this is going on? When journalists are gagged, beaten or disappeared for speaking truth? When people are in fear of the government should they speak out?
Warning: Some explicit footage in the video.How can anyone claim this current election in Sri Lanka is democratic when this is... more
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Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to Sri Lanka to see how the Tamil Tigers, one of the world's most lethal and influential terrorist organizations, were finally defeated.Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to Sri Lanka to see how the Tamil... more
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A song in Sinhala Language:Irithala Wati- singer sings about girl falling in love with two guys at the same time.
We, LJEI listened to Charmika Sirimanne song Iritala Wati & liked it. The music was kind of upbeat but sad or bitter sweet. He sings about a girl who falls in love with two men at the same time. The song is in Sinhala, one of the languages of Sri Lanka-the other two being, Tamil & English & there maybe a few other dialects.
[In the lyrics he sings of now this story is the story of our love & why havent you told your tale, that you were in love with the both of us at the same time
It touched a part of our mind because maybe even unknowingly we may have fallen in love with two or more guys at the same time. So came up with an idea based on imagery ideas(after she listened to it 15 times or so) are by TAJ who really liked the song.
--from the intro music, i thought this was a happy upbeat song, & even though i only understood some parts, when i heard second line & after, it made me cry, so Charmikas voice has the ability to transform the words to bring the meaning of the song even if we only understand little.I also had to ask for meanings of some words. Lyrics are very good. --
She was looking for a video for it and could not find anything online. So decided to highlight the beautiful song with imagery from LJEI because we promised the lyricist awhile ago to vihighlight song with a fan style vid & we like to keep promises when we can.
Video imagery & artwork created & edited by our associate Brad V of cwwl co.
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We at LJEI always love music in different languages. If the words are in a different language,
if u listen close u can distinguish words, get meaning (or gues at it by music, or what is conveyed thru the voice)
-I listened to a Malaysian/tamil song a month ago & it was so cool, loved it,reviewed it, etc, then went on to find out that it was an award winning song there...so it goes to show that somethings can transcend language barriers-A song in Sinhala Language:Irithala Wati- singer sings about girl falling in love with... more
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) |
Anoma Rajakaruna has warm memories of her childhood in the diverse suburb of Panadura, where she went to the market and the pharmacy with her mother and chatted with neighbors in a mixture of English, Sinhalese and Tamil.
Then bloody riots targeting minority Tamils exploded across the Sri Lankan capital. The Tamil neighbors she once greeted disappeared and her country was plunged into a civil war that continues to consume it.
As Sri Lanka marks the 25th anniversary of the riots this week, two exhibits by artists from the Sinhalese majority seek to prod their countrymen into acknowledging a quarter century of suffering, in the hopes of offering a path out of the violence.
"We need to take a minute after 25 years to think," said Miss Rajakaruna, 43, a photographer and documentary filmmaker. "People haven't dealt with this as they should."
Her exhibit, "July: Life After 25 Years," is a series of photographs of Tamil victims of the riots and the ensuing war. The images are stark and each portrait shows a different facet of the tremendous suffering.
Merchants return to their burned-out businesses on Aug. 1, 1983, in the Pettha area of downtown Colombo, Sri Lanka, to see what can be salvaged after a week of rioting. More than 1,000 businesses and homes were destroyed, and more than 2,000 Tamils were reported killed. (Associated Press)
One shows the lined and nearly expressionless face of a woman, almost 70, who lost all seven of her sons in the violence.
Another examines a Hindu Tamil writer, who lost all his works in the flames and now sculpts Buddha statues for the temples of poor Sinhalese Buddhists.
Yet another zeros in on the key tied around the neck of a woman who was driven from homes 16 times because of the violence.
Many in the Sinhalese community see themselves as victims of the separatists' bombs and suicide attacks and have never taken time to see that the Tamils are suffering as well, Miss Rajakaruna said.
"I wanted [the Sinhalese] to look at it and realize what we are going through and what they are going through," she said.
What has come to be known as "Black July" began after Tamil rebels killed 13 government soldiers in an ambush in northern Sri Lanka on July 23, 1983. Enraged Sinhalese mobs rampaged through Colombo for a week in a spasm of violence that human rights groups say killed more than 2,000 Tamils.
After the riots, many Tamils fled to the north. Some joined the Tamil Tiger rebels, who were fighting for an independent state for the minority community after decades of marginalization by governments dominated by the Sinhalese majority. The war has killed more than 70,000 people.
Anoma Rajakaruna is exhibiting a body of work titled "July: Life After 25 Years," a series of photographs of Tamil victims of the riots and the ensuing war, at a gallery in the Sri Lankan capital. (Associated Press)
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