Sri Lankan Minorities

Tweets from the perspective of Sri Lankan minorities. Personal account and views, not a collective one.

#SriLanka #LKA

[Sri Lankan Minorities @MinoritySL]

Nothing screams innocence quite like blanket immunities or preemptive pardons. #lka #srilanka

[The Morning @TheMorningLK]

The Government is planning to protect military officials from international prosecution through the introduction of laws that would purportedly grant military officials international immunity, The Morning learnt. https://t.co/lKrBlggPGW

[Mari @EmDeeS11]

About the #Buddhist flags on Independence Ave. yesterday. My response 👇🏾#lka

[Sri Lankan Minorities @MinoritySL]

Is this a distraction? Very likely to be. But this is also a pattern we see. The government thinks everything can be solved through the military.

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

Proposal to implement Military training for all Sri Lankan youth above the age of 18 (Video) https://t.co/JcHQelYdrB

[Sri Lankan Minorities @MinoritySL]

I wish Sri Lanka understood this.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

We can’t skip justice and get to peace.

“True peace,” my father said, “is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”

[Alan Keenan @akeenan23]

25 Years ago today. Powerful reflections from @rukitweets on 9 July 1995 #Navaly Church air force bombing in northern #SriLanka: one of many attacks on places of worship NOT acknowledged by the state & largely forgotten - but not by victims & survivors. https://t.co/au8FfZ2AZx

[Sri Lankan Minorities @MinoritySL]

Not even a month before this barbaric attack, Sri Lankan Navy killed 33 Tamil fishermen off the coast of Mandaitivu. They were tortured before they were killed. The eyes of some fishermen were dug out. Stomachs of some fishermen were cut open, according to news reports.

[shenali waduge @shenaliwaduge]

9 July 1986

Trincomalee district - Mollipothana Village massacre: Mullipothana village was stormed at night by a group of armed LTTE who killed 16 civilians most of them women and children

NO @UNHumanRights
NO @hrw
NO @amnesty
NO envoys cried 'war crimes'

[Sri Lankan Minorities @MinoritySL]

Does everyone need to remove their masks to enter any of your branches or is it just limited to Muslims?

[Sampath Bank @SampathBankPLC]

SPECIAL NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC #SampathBank #SampathPLC

[Sri Lankan Minorities @MinoritySL]

From @oorukaai4x1.

[Sri Lankan Minorities @MinoritySL]

Illegal sand mining or not, killing someone is not acceptable. We have to prosecute people, not execute them.

[Tamil Guardian @TamilGuardian]

UPDATE - Tamil man shot dead by Sri Lankan army soldiers named as 24-year-old Thiraviyam Ramalingham

He was taken to Palai Hospital with a doctor not brought to treat him for 45 minutes.

Locals are protesting outside the hospital & on the A9 highway.

https://t.co/iC04mU4DPJ

[Justice For Hejaaz @Justice4Hejaaz]

Hejaaz always respected the law of the country, and wanted his Muslim brethren to do the same. #JusticeForHejaaz

[Sri Lanka Campaign @SLcampaign]

But most strikingly, three quarters of all such interactions took place in the Tamil majority Northern and Eastern Provinces. The districts with the highest number of interactions were Kilnochchi, Jaffna and Mullaitivu (representing more than half of the total)

[Sri Lanka Campaign @SLcampaign]

No place for soldiers: the militarisation of Sri Lanka’s schools | a short new report analysing the Sri Lankan Army’s presence in schools (Jan 2018 – Dec 2019) and what it means for war affected communities in Sri Lanka https://t.co/x0i9GH4BDY

[Sri Lanka Campaign @SLcampaign]

In the period covered, we recorded a total of 351 occasions where troops visited schools in Sri Lanka or were involved in school activities. That’s just under one interaction every two days.

[Elijah Hoole @elihoole]

Sajith and Ranil are so bad that Namal is playing Opposition Leader:

[Munza Mushtaq @munza14]

If 3 policemen were suspended because they failed to arrest Thariq, why was none of the policemen suspended for their failure to apprehend the public who attended Thondaman's funeral defying curfew.
One Country - One Law? 🤔
#LKA #SriLanka #DoubleStandards #JusticeForThariq

[Sri Lankan Minorities @MinoritySL]

This is an astonishingly bad take and possibly with ulterior motives.

He didn't call the language a garbage. He said that about the garbage written about him in Sinhala.

[Sarath Weerasekera @ReAdSarath]

Being a good Sinhalese, hv always respctd #Tamil language. Im sure all respctable #Tamils of 'Good Birth & Upbringing' respects Sinhala language as well.

T4 'if' anyone in #SriLanka insults language of majority, as he, I wont hesitate to say that he invariably bcomes a Bastard!

[Sri Lankan Minorities @MinoritySL]

Some more to the list.

https://t.co/AfTiggOVgG

[Udaya Gammanpila @UPGammanpila]

“Some” minorities in Sri Lanka not only breathe but also blow at the majority.

Eg #EasterSundayAttack #AranthalawaMassacre #GonawalaMassacre #AttackOnTempleOfToothRelic and thousands of many more such attacks

@USAmbSLM @USEmbSL

[Sri Lankan Minorities @MinoritySL]

"No justice, no peace."

[Billy Baldwin @BillyBaldwin]

Attention white supremacists:
Here comes the future... and she ain’t takin’ shit from nobody.
#GeorgeFloyd
#BlackLivesMatter
#Merrick

[Amalini @Amaliniii]

SinBuds contrasting Derek Chauvin, who killed George Floyd, with an SLA soldier 'carrying' a woman out of the war zone, conveniently forgetting that Sgt Sunil Rathnayake - imprisoned over the killings of 8 Tamil civilians in Mirusuvil - was granted a Presidential Pardon. #lka

[Sri Lankan Minorities @MinoritySL]

Filed under All Lives Matter or Why isn't there men's day or why is it feminism if it's equal rights?

[Mario Arulthas @MarioArul]

A four part explanation in how Sinhalese centre themselves when oppressed communities in Sri Lanka speak up against racism.