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Liberation does not come as a gift from anybody; it is seized by the masses with their own hands. - Frantz Fanon
IT IS A KFIR ( 2007 ) The documentary explores how the Sri Lankan state used Israeli Kfir jets for airstrikes, terrorizing Tamil children, targeting schools, and devastating civilian life in Tamil regions.
📕 Sri Lanka's Secrets: How the Rajapaksa Regime Gets Away With Murder | 2014 Trevor Grant This book by Trevor Grant, with photographic proof, not only depicts the Tamil Genocide, especially the brutal Mullivaikal massacre, but also exposes the complicity of world powers in the…
🧵 42 years ago, on July 23rd, the Black July pogrom took place in Sri Lanka, the largest anti-Tamil pogrom in the island’s history. The island-wide violence led to the killing of 5,638 Eelam Tamils. Around 18,000 homes were burned, 5,000 shops were destroyed, and horrific…
100 years ago, one of the greatest anti-colonial thinkers, Frantz Fanon, was born in Martinique. His works inspired many national liberation and decolonization movements. Fanon’s magnum opus, The Wretched of the Earth, remains deeply relevant to the oppressed and colonized…
📼 Crayons and Paper | 2008 Dr. Jerry Ehrlich, a New Jersey pediatrician who worked with Doctors Without Borders in war zones, including Sri Lanka, gave Tamil children crayons and paper, encouraging them to draw their experiences. The resulting images depicted bombings,…
📷 Tamil female guerrilla fighter from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) | Steve McCurry