Picturing Sri Lanka’s Undead War

[Pak Bahasa]

Our Journeys / Asia 17 May 2019

Ten years after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Crisis Group’s Sri Lanka Project Director Alan Keenan and Photographer Julie David de Lossy travelled 1,500km through ex-combat zones. They found a population finding ways to cope with their traumatic experiences and an extraordinary array of monuments to the war.

more/source: https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-asia/sri-lanka/picturing-sri-lankas-undead-war

 

[MA*R*CO]

In 1987, Tamil Tiger militants ambushed a bus carrying young Sinhalese Buddhist monks on pilgrimage as they were passing through the village of Aranthalawa, in Ampara district. They killed thirty-three monks. The same bus now stands anchored in concrete, carved into Sri Lanka’s landscape. Inside, statues of young monks cry out in pain and terror amid splatters of red paint.

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Foto Bus: d2071andvip0wj.cloudfront.net















Monument of Aranthalawa Massacre

අරන්තලාව භික්ෂු ඝාතක ස්මාරකය

Quelle + kompletter Artikel: amazinglanka.com

 

[MA*R*CO]

Militants believed to be Tamil Tigers attacked the Meera Jumma Mosque in Kattankudy, a Muslim-majority town in Batticaloa district, in August 1990, killing 147 worshippers. Three decades later, the walls are riddled with bullet holes, as locals choose not to forget.

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Foto Moschee: d2071andvip0wj.cloudfront.net

 

[MA*R*CO]

Tamil women protest the army’s occupation of their land in the village of Keppapulavu, located across the Nandikadal lagoon from Mullivaikkal, site of the final battles.

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Bild Keppapulavu: d2071andvip0wj.cloudfront.net


Keppapulavu: www.sri-lanka-board.de

 

[MA*R*CO]

Hands stretch skyward at a Tamil memorial in Mullivaikkal remembering the many Tamil civilians killed in the final battles between the military and the Tamil Tigers.

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Bild Mullivaikkal: d2071andvip0wj.cloudfront.net



Mullivaikkal: www.sri-lanka-board.de

 

[MA*R*CO]

The army’s Victory Monument overlooks the A35 highway just outside Puthukkudiyiruppu, close to some of the final fighting in early 2009. It commemorates the troops’ “conquest” in defeating “terrorists”.

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Bild Victory Monument: d2071andvip0wj.cloudfront.net

 

[MA*R*CO]

Die Fotos am Ende der Beiträge #2 (5), #3 (5) und #6 (3) sind von mir.

 

[Claudia]

Danke, Marco! Teilweise recht makabere Darstellungen.

Das Kriegsdenkmal hat fast Buddhagrösse

 

[Pak Bahasa]

Beitrag #2 siehe auch u.a. hier: https://www.sri-lanka-board.de/show...alawa-Massaker-Monument&highlight=Aranthalawa