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- "Intellect, in it’s truest form, does not allow for war....." - Manjunan Gnanaratnam
- ‘Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize.’ - Chimamanda Adichie
About Us
- SahaSamvada
- SahaSamvada is a platform for dialogue between youth both in Sri Lanka and overseas on issues related to a political solution to the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan Diaspora is a very strong link to the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka and has so far only been engaged by groups propagating violence. SahaSamvada hopes to stimulate a positive political conscience within the Sri Lankan Diaspora, especially amongst its youth. Sahasamvada means conversation or dialogue in Sanskrit
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Blog Archive
More video links...
- danger of the single story - Chimamanda Adichie
- NDTV Video - Protest in Jaffna
- Sky News Video - Protests in Jaffna
- Democracy Now - Interview with Nirmala Rajasingam
- Rehabilitation Centre for former LTTE Cadres - Al Jazeera
- Life in Limbo: Swiss temporary permits
- Malaysian Artistes for Unity: Here in my home
- Sri Lanka's Ghosts: State Responsibility for Disappearances and Abductions - Human Rights Watch Report
- ITN news bulletin - Tamil diaspora accuse LTTE of paralysing peace efforts (in Sinhala)
Documents/ Articles - Diaspora I Conflict Dynamics
- * The Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora after the LTTE - February 2010, Internatioanl Crisis Group Report
- * Negotiating Justice: Guidance for Mediators
- * HRW Report - War on the Displaced
- * HRW Report - Trapped and Mistreated: LTTE abuses against civilians in the Vanni
- * Blunders in Tigerland: Pape's muddles on "Suicide Bombers" in Sri Lanka by Michael Roberts
- * Broken Palmyra (UTHR)
- * History of the Conflict in Sri Lanka (P.O.V)
- * No Safety No Escape: Children and the Escalating Armed Conflict in Sri Lanka
- * Engineering ethics, Sampoor power and civilian trauma
- * Silencing Dissent - Amnesty International USA Report
- * Paying for “The Final War”: LTTE Fundraising and Extortion within the Tamil Diaspora in late 2005 and early 2006
- * Sri Lanka: Finding a Negotiated End to Twenty-Five Years of Violence
- * Diaspora and Conflict: Locality, Long Distance Nationalism, and Delocalisation of Conflict Dynamics
Important Links
- 10 Tactics: Exploring how rights advocates use information and digital technology to create positive change
- groundviews
- HIMAL Southasian
- Human Rights Watch (HRW)
- International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
- International Crisis Group
- Lanka Solidarity
- lines
- Nichamam
- P.O.V - no more tears sister (Trailer & Info)
- Peace and Conflict Timeline (PACT)
- peace for a day
- peace like a river
- Shobasakthi
- Sri Lanka Democracy Forum (SLDF)
- The Sathya Column on SLDF
- Troop of Tigons, League of Ligers
- Udaru
- UTHR (J)
- Uyirnizhal (Tamil)
- YaliniDream
References to SahaSamvada
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Hearings at the Lessons Learnt & Reconciliation Commission (LLRC)
Reflections
- "not knowing the atrocities of war those who cry out for it whoever they are - I will say that they are the first reason that Eezham still remains burning" - Sakkarawarthi
- "The Tamil diaspora has created this monster. They are the reason for this on-going war. They must stop this war because we need peace. We all need peace. Even the soldiers need peace. They don't want to be in this war. They want to go home and live in peace" - Rt. Rev. Thomas Soundranayagam, Bishop of Jaffna
- "Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us" - Arundhati Roy
- “In the event that there are any ambiguities or uncertainties on this issue, I wish to reiterate that non-violence is the central article of our political faith. We cannot glorify death whether in the battlefield or otherwise. We, on the other hand, must celebrate life, and are fiercely committed to protecting and securing the sanctity of life, which is the most fundamental value without which all other rights and freedoms become meaningless” - Neelan Tiruchelvam
- "Flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use to first, shrink wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead" - Arundhati Roy
- "One day some gun will silence me and it will not be held by an outsider but by the son born in the womb of this very society, from a woman with whom my history is shared" - Rajini Thiranagama (1954 - 1989)
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