Ruwanthie de Chickera

Only do social media when there is an emergency. This is an emergency.

[ISI @institute_si]

🗣️ We’re delighted to confirm that @RuwanthieDeC Sri Lankan playwright, screenwriter, activist, and co-author of Gull, the #BorderGod & the #StatelessBeyond, will speak at the launch on 24 Nov, 3–4:30pm UK. Register 👉
https://t.co/wRlXkyMDfe

[Ruwanthie de Chickera @RuwanthieDeC]

Inspired by Tendayi Achiume’s 2020 UN report on race, technology and #borders, GULL, THE #BORDER GOD AND THE #STATELESS BEYOND imagines a world where rights & freedoms collapse under racial & technological border control. Launching 24 Nov, 3–4:30pm UK👉 https://t.co/EBpfrYq8iW

[Ruwanthie de Chickera @RuwanthieDeC]

Braved the freezing cold and dressed up in sari with my two girls for the premiere of #TheReturn2024. Working on this script was not easy. I am delighted the film is being appreciated for its restrained story telling.

[Ruwanthie de Chickera @RuwanthieDeC]

What a wonderful experience to sit amongst an audience and listen to them watch something you have helped create. Thank you to #UbertoPasolin for bringing me in on the script and Piyumi and @Amal_deC for accompanying me to @britishmuseum launch of the #TheReturn2024

[Ruwanthie de Chickera @RuwanthieDeC]

Ruwanthie de Chickera has collaborated with #UbertoPasolini on the final draft of his latest film #TheReturn2024, starring #ralphFinnes & #JulietteBinoche, which premieres in the UK on the 11th of April 2025.

Read more:
https://t.co/y8w19dHuW1

[Ruwanthie de Chickera @RuwanthieDeC]

Children of the Little Olive Park Mobile Version : Internet Archive https://t.co/3A2UoW19sp via @internetarchive

On the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, here is a little offering.

Please read. Please share.

Palestine. The world remembers with you.

[Ruwanthie de Chickera @RuwanthieDeC]

We continue to gather regularly in Sri Lanka to protest for a free Palestine.

Today, on Christmas Eve, it was to sing ceasefire carols. It was a mixed gathering of all religions and races in Sri Lanka.

[Ruwanthie de Chickera @RuwanthieDeC]

Artists the world over will perform the Gaza Monologues on the 29th of November.

We stand with Palestine. We bring you the courage of its people through these stories that speak of an unthinkable existence even 15 years ago.

#gazamonologues

[Ruwanthie de Chickera @RuwanthieDeC]

Palestinian ambassadors the world over are providing the leadership this wounded world needs. They are the voice of the future. Let’s keep spotlighting them. https://t.co/SdBcA5hJp5

[Ruwanthie de Chickera @RuwanthieDeC]

Sri Lankans protesting outside US embassy in Colombo burnt a picture of Biden and Netanyahu and were attacked by riot police. Five have been arrested. https://t.co/tasMLd2okJ

[Ruwanthie de Chickera @RuwanthieDeC]

Today - on UN Children’s Day Sri Lankans protested outside the UN compound. https://t.co/mdlUeSq8iS

[Ruwanthie de Chickera @RuwanthieDeC]

We will hold a vigil at the UN compound on Children’s Day.

What is the use of world organizations that have no power to protect the children of this world from articulated genocide?

If the system does not work in a crisis, IT DOES NOT WORK!

We hope UN staff will join us.

[Ruwanthie de Chickera @RuwanthieDeC]

November 20th is UN World Children’s Day. On their website is the stirring question WHAT WILL YOU DO? I ask that question back to the UN to UNICEF … what will YOU do on world children’s day? What COULD you possibly do to earn back a bit of respect? Another statement is it?

[Ruwanthie de Chickera @RuwanthieDeC]

I sometimes reflect on the tragedy of Israel, now attracting the worlds’ worst racists and bigots - this ‘promised land’ built on the foundations of hatred.
What are they going to do with all these angry, violent people? Hatred does not just slip away after you have lived it.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

"Let Israel finish the job!"

A genocidal message is held aloft at a pro-Israel march in Washington, DC, today.

[Ruwanthie de Chickera @RuwanthieDeC]

The people of the world stand with Palestine. Powerful governments, bought-over media, oligarchs stand with Israeli state. Pick your side.

[Ruwanthie de Chickera @RuwanthieDeC]

A comprehensive study of the manner in which Israel has systematically built a system of apartheid over the years. https://t.co/IsuH8vBHEr

[Ruwanthie de Chickera @RuwanthieDeC]

More words saying the same thing. More people saying the same thing.

Palestine unites the world against racism, hypocrisy and imperialism.

The tide will change all at once.

Let’s keep working for what is right. Let’s not give up.

[Mari @EmDeeS11]

Joint Statement by student unions across South Asia condemning the genocide of the Palestinian people

We recognize the right of the Palestinian people to resist, return home, and to be free.

#FreePalestine
#CeasefireNow
End the occupation! - https://t.co/juJar823RY

[Ruwanthie de Chickera @RuwanthieDeC]

And here we sit, adults re-tweeting the pleas of children under attack, asking politicians of the ‘civilised West’ the ‘largest democracies’ to stop supporting genocide to, to adherer to international law. Palestine you have revealed the most shameful hypocrisy in human history.

[Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy]

Palestinian children in Gaza hold a news conference outside Al Shifa hospital, where they sought refuge.

“We want to live. We want peace. We want food, medicine and education. Not bombs… we want to live as the other children live.” via @Shepherds4Good

[Ruwanthie de Chickera @RuwanthieDeC]

Politicians do not represent the people who elect them. They represent the people who fund them.

[Majid Freeman @Majstar7]

No one wants to talk about Palestinians being held hostage by Israel. Are their lives not equal?