Senel Wanniarachchi
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PhD-ing @LSEnews . Co-founded @Generation_SL . Interested in theory, resistance, postcoloniality, nationalism, the works.
Colombo, London, idk
Joined July 2011
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It’s an odd time to share ‘achievements’ but we’ve been talking about the relationships between dehumanisation & violence & I wanted to share my new article on entanglements between animality, nationalism & affect on Cultural Politics journal
@DukePress
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Honestly.
What can be more cowardly than attacking people while on they're on their knees praying before the God they believe in?
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getting the police involved for being called a coconut is .. peak coconut
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Edward
@Snowden
addressing
#ORGCon2019
'patriotism is not keeping your head down and following orders. It's about being loyal to the country and it's people. Not the government.'
@OpenRightsGroup
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Happening now: Students from London Universities staging a die-in at the LSE’s globe.
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Dear Muslim people in Nugegoda whose gates were sprayed සින්හලේ
Id be happy to volunteer to paint the gates back
-Sinhala boy from Nugegoda
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.
@jeremycorbyn
speaking to students at the LSE encampment.
Speakers weren’t allowed in the building where the encampment is (shame!)
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Students of the school for the deaf in Ratmalana singing the Sri Lankan national anthem in sign.
Are our racist friends against this too ?
අපේ "දේශප්රේමී" යාලුවෝ මේකටත් විරුද්ධ ද?
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Sri Lanka has sent a warning to fascists around the world:
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Throwback to this moment when then President Sirisena, called current President Ranil W a “queer” butterfly (& therefore unfit to govern) & those in the audience, including his current Prime Minister Dinesh G + others in his ‘new’ Cabinet, had a great laugh about the whole thing
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Repeat After Me: not permitting burials was never about science
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Master of Science in Human Rights Rights. Done!
@LSEHumanRights
.
Officially certified in ජාත්යන්තර කුමන්ත්රණ, guys!
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It's not safe to hold a small protest but okay to have a national election?
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Happening now: Students of the Khemadasa Academy singing protest songs in solidarity with protestors at Independence Square.
The Master would have been proud.
#GoHomeRajapakshas
#GoHomeGota2022
#SriLanka
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What made
@Dailymirror_SL
change the title / contents of their "Meat Processing Factory" story to "Food processing factory" overnight?
Let's play a game of spot the difference:
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"I'm always fascinated by the line 'we don't want to become minorities in our own country". Why not? Are they treated badly or something?"
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We are just a country trying to get over our collective daddy issues.
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Hey
@Sri_Lankapolice
, is this direct incitement of violence against protesting citizens not “hate speech” for you?
Aragalaya should have been dealt with the same way dissent was dealt in the 70s & 80s - SLPPs MP Sanath Nishantha.
#Lka
via
@NewsfirstSL
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Went for this.. and the best part was to be able to do this in front of the statue of this man who passed Sinhala Only
#GotaGoGama
The NA sung in Tamil today! No fancy choirs but so many still came together. Had someone tell me this was first time since he left school in 2013 he heard anthem in Tamil, & came in the middle of work just for this.
Thank you
@Shamika_25
for putting this together.
#GoHomeGota
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I have posted this on Facebook exactly 8 years ago.
While something's have changed, a whole lot has not.
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"මේ ජාතීන් අතර ප්රශ්නය මුන් ආයේ අවුලවනවා..හැම ආණ්ඩුවක්ම බලය පවත්වා ගන්නේ බොහොම දැනුවත්ව මේ සමාජය බෙදලා වෙන් කරලා. ..මේ යන විදියට ආයෙමත් බිලි පූජාවක් එනවා. ..අපි තාම දන්නෑ මේ ���ාර තුවක්කුව හැරෙන්නෙ සිංහල සමාජයට ද දෙමළ සමාජයට ද කියලා"
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This morning, this gentleman who stood next to me, sang the Tamil national anthem off a school text book printed by the state.
Well played, sir.
Photo :
@vikalpavoices
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It turns out this whole drama over 'fallopian tubes' was an ovary-action.
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Despite all the
#PressPollSL
drama.
Can we take a minute to celebrate that fellow Sri Lankan/ friend/ sister/ comrade
@jayathmadw
is on the
@TIME
Magazine's '100 Next' list
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Who is scared of our white handkerchiefs ?
The ghouls of Kanatte have removed overnight the white handkerchiefs tied in memory of the infant who was cremated forcibly against the wishes of the parents.
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Draft: “Dear Embassies,
We were compelled to unleash state violence on unarmed protestors in the dead of the night because if they had peacefully withdrawn, we wouldnt have had anyone to scapegoat for our own incompetence to address the humanitarian crisis unfolding in
#SriLanka
”
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Happening now: a group of LSE alumni have begun protesting inside LSE Alumni Centre, demanding that the school’s Council votes Yes for the divestment proposal put forward by
@lse_encampment
Council meeting is in session now and is expected to discuss/ vote on the proposal now
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The only thing worse than Sri Lanka's foreign policy now is our domestic policy.
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The Govt is trying to scapegoat "කුඩ්ඩො" to discredit the
#Aragalaya
now, since "කොටි", "තම්බි" & "NGOකාරයො" hasn't worked so far.
Major speech by newly re-appointed Chief Government Whip Prasanna Ranatunga about 'uncivilised behaviour' of 'aragala karuwo' - includes allegations that they are druggies 😏
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That awkward moment when Wimal W and the GMOA are the voices of reason.
Minister Wimal Weerawansa calls for an immediate two-weeks shutdown "Most probably, such decision will be taken by tomorrow morning. I have already informed my opinion to the President."
#COVID
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"යුද්දේ නැතුව පාළුයි"
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!⃝ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀
Today is
#ZeroDiscriminationDay
.
As the president of
#lka
I am determined to secure everybody’s right to live life with dignity regardless of age, gender, sexuality, race, physical appearance, and beliefs.
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Today
@nabeelaxiqbal
@Nethmini_M
@benislos
@suchith4peace
& I spoke at a media briefing as representatives of Sri Lankan youth organizations where we called on the Govt to act on the advice of the scientific community &
#StopForcedCremations
Full video:
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වෛරය පතුරුවන්න එපා කියන කොට අපිට NGOකාරයෝ කියපු අයත් දැන් සහජීවන talk දෙනවා.
බලන් ගියාම අපි ඔක්කොම NGOකාරයෝ.
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Next time someone tells you we need more educated people in Parliament point them to what an embarrassment the Prof. has become.
Formal education is nothing without integrity.
#CoupLk
#SriLanka
SLPP chairman GL Peiris who now says President can dissolve Parliament said this in 2015
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Wilpattu is the new Sterilization pill is the Sinhale is the new Fashion Bug is the new Halal Certificate.
The powers that be don't want us to see these patterns.
But we do. But we do.
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The Sri Lankan Political elite have absolutely no shame. Their opportunism, even at a time most people in the country are barely getting by, has no bounds. They’ve repeated shown that they’ll go to any length protect themselves & each other at any cost.
The laugh is always on us
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I recently spoke in a panel where I shared some data on "early, child and forced marriages" in Sri Lanka.
I woke up this message from my mother the next morning 🤦🏾♂️
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Respect to this woman standing up to this thug in robes. What a badass.
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Basically, Ranil didn't investigate into MRs corruption, so I appointed MR as PM.
#CoupLk
“Ranil Wickramasinghe should take responsibility for everything” President Sirisena blames his former PM for not punishing wrongdoers of the previous Rajapaksa administration, says he is not responsible. Watch full video clip in
@bbcsinhala
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You know things are out of control when you go on Facebook and see the bile there and suddenly you long for the good old constitutional coup days when everyone claimed to be a constitutional expert not a bloodthirsty racist.
Simpler times.
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"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead"
— Arundhati Roy
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Alternative headline: popstar who spread racist fake news story during Presidential election that sanitary napkins are laced with "sterilisation pills" is paid back with directorial position in the national broadcaster to amplify her voice.
Sanjeewani Weerasinghe appointed to the Board of Directors of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation.
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Muslims for BBS 🙆🙆🙆
Polar bears for global warming
🙆🙆🙆
Cows for beef burgers 🙆🙆🙆
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What's next, pardon rapists for women's day ?
SLFP MP Duminda Dissanayake requests President Sirisena to grant a presidential pardon for Bodu Bala Sena's Gnanasara thero on Independence day 4th February. MP says Gnanasara thero could play a role to ensure national unity among races.
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can you see
that the ICU beds are running out
from the top
of the Lotus Tower ?
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Rest in power, brave butterfly.
What a loss for everyone.
I would rather be a butterfly than a leech Mr.President !!!
@MaithripalaS
#CoupLK
#ConstitutionalCrisisSriLanka
#FakePM
#illegalgovernment
#lka
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No, I learnt from a mythical king who went around setting monkeys' tails on fire
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We've been talking a lot about burials & respecting the dead these days.
That the govt is still not allowing burials for Covid-19 victims despite numerous pleas shows their lack of respect for the dead.
But have our ruling class ever had any respect for the dead?
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Tip for the holidays: ask your racist friends who suggest the 'Indian model' for a national anthem in a single language, if they also support the Indian model of devolution (just to tick them off a bit).
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ඔක්සිජන් ඕනේ වෙන්නේ මුස්ලිම් අය ගස් කපන කපන කොට විතර ද?
පරිසරය රැකගන්න තක්කඩි පොල් බූරුවන් ඉදිරියේ කොන්ද කෙලින් තියාගෙන කතා කරපු රාජ්ය නිළධාරිනියට ඇමති නිශාන්ත මෙහෙම කියනවා. 'මේක පුංචි දූපතක්' ඒ ඇමතිගේම
#Facebook
හි ඡායාරූපයක් මෙන්න. නරුමකමට තවත් උදාහරණ අවශ්ය වන්නේ නැත.
#srilanka
Shame
@PodujanaParty
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Ah Sri Lanka... where women can't legally buy alcohol but as you step into the country through the immigration, women dressed in sarees are made to join their palms and say, "sir, welcome to Sri Lankan Duty Free, we have a special discount today on Gold Label".
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A few weeks ago the world celebrated as they watched the footage of Sri Lankans forcing their fascist incompetent President to flee
Now the world is watching silently as Ranil W who got appointed President on the wake of it,is cracking down on activists involved in that struggle
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2015:I was a
@CPASL
employee (full of hope). We had just organized an event called
#MyConstitutionSL
calling for a new constitution
Sunil Perera was one of the speakers. He kept dropping one truth bomb after the other
After the event I ran ran behind him &asked for a pic
#RIP
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Throwing chillie powder at each other in Parliament is fine but talking about the harassment you face on the streets of your own country is not ?
#ViyathMagaLogic
@Amethystinia
@MWijewickrama
@MarianneDavid24
This is just shaming your country in front of the world. Do you think such stupid inaccurate statements going to help country trying to recover from the eastersunday terro attack. We will not encourage tourists by making statements that are far from the truth. M
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And we are the plants
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පැවසීමට හැක්කේ මෙපමණයි:
තමන් දන්නෙවත් නැති උදවිය ගේ photos අරගෙන ඒවා analyze කරනවාට වඩා වෙන වැඩක් ඇත්තෙම නැද්ද?
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Can we please stop attacking the whole premise of the system of free education, everytime some kids break into a fight?
ALTERNATIVELY, when you celebrate kids who perform well at exams, maybe also talk about how they wouldn't have been able to otherwise afford that education.
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The irony of refusing to let citizens of our own country sing these words in a language they can actually understand...
"ප්රේම වඩා සැම භේද දුරැර දා නමෝ නමෝ මාතා"
#Srilanka
: 72nd Independence Day celebrations National anthem will be sung only in Sinhala
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My school's baseball team & their coach were killed at the 2008 Fort railway station bombing. They were returning to Colombo from a game.
To say the LTTE never targeted civilians is not only untrue but also offensive & no different from govt's zero civilian casualty narrative
LTTE never had intentions of purposely targeting Sinhala civilians, while the SL gov purposely attacked,raped,tortured,dropped bombs &massacred Tamils 1953 & onward. It could’ve been so easy for Tigers to massacre Sinhala villages & blow up civilians for no reason but they didn’t
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Where's the "Presidential Task Force to protect archaeological sites"?
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"trying every trick in the book"
Have they tried this one yet?
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Going to the same University as
@Bakeer_Markar
, on the same scholarship. This one is for you bro.
#mycheveningjourney
#chosenforchevening
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Based on demands made by
@lse_encampment
, LSE has committed £500,000 in scholarships for Palestinians.
This includes £250,000 in scholarships for Palestinian students and £250,000 for the scholars at risk programme.
Divestment next.
🎙️Statement from the LSE Liberated Zone following yesterday’s (6 June) negotiations with School Management Committee
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A moment to chair-ish
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The Chevening Alumni Association of
#SriLanka
has called for the release of fellow Chevening scholar
@Hejaazh
Hizbullah whilst requesting alumni from around the world to write to the
#Lka
Inspector General of Police regarding the matter
@Justice4Hejaaz
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