The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday July 21st, 2022
Get Gota: Holding a War Criminal Accountable by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
The fall and ignominious retreat of Sri Lanka’s Gotabaya Rajapaksa has enlivened one distinct possibility. Having formally resigned as Sri Lankan President, a point made via email from Singapore, those wishing to see him account for war crimes may get their wish.
There have been various efforts in train regarding a man who ruthlessly concluded his country’s civil war in an orgy of mass killing. The war itself, waged between the forces of Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism and the minority Tamils seeking independence, was the rotten fruit of discrimination, exclusion and ethnocratic politics heralded by the passage of the Sinhala Only Act in 1956. That legislative instrument, implemented by Prime Minister S.W.R.D Bandaranaike, made Sinhalese the country’s official language while banishing Tamils from important positions of employment.
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The sacred #poem by George Cassidy Payne
“is when you know
that shoveling the driveway
is a Catholic mass”
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Always something; the family edition #38 #Cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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