Manisha Jayatilleke

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

The Colombo Magistrate’s Court has been informed by the CID that a group of politicians are deliberately obstructing and interfering with the ongoing investigations into the Easter Sunday attacks. According to reports, CID officers named former State Intelligence Service Director Suresh Sallay, along with former ministers Udaya Gammanpila and Wimal Weerawansa, and MP Dilith Jayaweera, as figures hindering the process. The CID stressed that such interference poses a serious threat to uncovering the full truth behind the tragedy.

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[Chaminda Dias @chami9539]

This is dire... but not a surprise. We have built a system that routinely fails victims of abuse.

Recently, a friend was physically assaulted by her husband. When she went to the police and made a complaint, the response was for the policewoman to call the husband and ask him to take her home because men are seen as the head of the household.

That entrenched misogyny meant she was asked to be patient, think of the children, and try to work things out... and this was after she had been battered.

The case is still going nowhere, and she remains trapped in that home, still living with a violent and unpredictable man.

So when people ask why there is outrage when children allege abuse, this is why... If grown women can't get protection from a system steeped in misogyny and power imbalances, what chance does a child have?

Then add another layer.. the reverence and protection afforded to religious institutions. Those children are not just fighting an individual abuser but an entire system.

That is why people are angry, why I am angry. That is why this has touched a nerve throughout the country.

Anyone who feels that this is an attack on the institution of Buddhism needs to rethink their worldview. It is the abuser who is denigrating the religion, not those asking for accountability on behalf of voiceless children.

#SriLanka
#AccountabilityProjectLK
#SystemChangeLK

[Manisha Jayatilleke @ManishaJ_]

@rothbourne Oh 😐 Yet to try it

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

“Those monsters [Israelis] took pleasure in beating me, in sexually assaulting me and my friends.. They removed our clothes, endured us with cold weather and forced us to kneel on the ground with the head on the floor and said, ‘IF YOU LIFT YOUR HEAD WE WILL SHOOT YOU’”

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

Indian rescuers shared an emotional video at Colombo Airport, thanking “the people of Sri Lanka for your hospitality” as they departed after completing flood and landslide rescue missions.

Thank you to the 🇮🇳 team for standing with us in our hardest moments. 🙏🇱🇰🤝🇮🇳

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The dolphins are getting Alzheimer's from algae blooms
caused by warming waters and toxic runoff

and you could see the bloodstains in Sudan 
from space.

The cobalt is mined by children
and the music is made by robots

and the grownups are wondering
where the fireflies went.

It is an elephant with an eyepatch and a prosthetic leg.
It's a freshly emptied bed in the nursing home.

A hand offers you pills to numb the dissonance,
but you swat it away and howl naked in the thorns.

Somewhere there's an ibis on a piano 
in a junkyard in the rain.

Somewhere else there's a small boy
who has just learned the word "treasure".

"Look! Buried treasure!" he tells his dad.
"No. That's just glass worn smooth by the sea."

"Is that treasure?"
"No, that's just a shiny candy wrapper 
shimmering in the sun."

"Ooh! THIS is treasure!"
"No that's garbage. Put it down."

And the boy's vision changes
and he no longer sees the treasure in things.

He runs to join his dad 
and they walk together down the shore

through a dying world
of fading wonder
full of worthless beach trash.

"He is wrong," you whisper 
as the blood leaves your body.

"There is treasure everywhere."

[Manisha Jayatilleke @ManishaJ_]

@Tala__Darwish ❤️💪🏽

[Manisha Jayatilleke @ManishaJ_]

@namer6549 ❤️

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

"Keep going Anas, you are our voice" 💔

[Manisha Jayatilleke @ManishaJ_]

@KittiesInternet @shehal

[Manisha Jayatilleke @ManishaJ_]

@Hamzasharif5750 💔

[The Palestinian @InsiderWorld_1]

Retweet if you do.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

When someone feels entitled to ask any Palestinian to condemn the horrors and crimes of October 7—after decades of brutal occupation, dispossession, massacres after massacres, torture and humiliation—I stop taking them seriously. Moral authority doesn’t come from selective memory.
Also, Piers, if nothing else, out of humility and decorum—and given your country’s historic responsibility—some questions should not be asked.

[Manisha Jayatilleke @ManishaJ_]

@mhammedziad1 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

While many knew Hossam as a fearless journalist, there was so much more to him. He was a young man with dreams, with a sense of humor, and a heart full of life. He loved dressing well, even in the middle of chaos, once joking:
“What if I run into a cute girl while reporting? I want to look good!”

Hossam had crushes. He wanted to fall in love, to build a family, to be a husband and a father. He talked about the future like he believed in it — like it was something real and reachable. He wanted more than headlines and frontlines. He wanted soft mornings, quiet dinners, laughter with loved ones.

He dreamed of leaving Gaza someday, saying,
“When this is all over, I’m taking a long break — I want to visit a beautiful country.”
He longed for peace — not just for his people, but for his own soul. A chance to breathe freely, to explore, to just be.

He grew up by the sea and loved seafood deeply. The ocean was part of him — he’d smile and say,
“I love everything seafood — I grew up with it.”
There was something about the water that calmed him, something that reminded him of home, even as the world around him was in pieces.

At night, you’d find him with his headphones on, listening to music — especially Palestinian songs. He’d spend time during the day downloading them so he could escape into melodies once the city quieted down. It was his small form of peace — rhythm in the middle of ruin.

He was pure. He was innocent.
There was a gentleness in him that never hardened, even in war. A softness that stayed untouched by the noise around him. He believed in beauty, in love, in something better. And that is how he should be remembered — not just as a journalist, but as a young man who wanted to live.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

statue in Iraq in honor of the shoe thrown at Bush

[🅰️ndrew @RealAndrewLK]

With the local government elections due next year, the extremists in the South need a clown like this to stir up some sh** so they can go back to ther racist playbook. Very nicely stage-managed show. Wonder who's behind this?

[Manisha Jayatilleke @ManishaJ_]

@wutdfark Amazing Homeware on Nawala Rd has beautiful wooden ones. They're shaped like Christmas trees and have little drawers for you to add your own goodies. They're quite pricey, but you can use them every year. Not sure if that's what you're looking for though.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

This is how every genocide enabler should be treated. Kamala Harris, the people now ARE SPEAKING.