June 13, 2009 The disappearing act in Sri LankaAbeysekera: Sri Lankan intelligence has always been extremely good at torture
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Sharmini Peries speaks to Sunila Abeysekera award-winning human rights defender and the Executive Director of INFORM, an organization working to spread the word on Sri Lankan human rights violations. The speak about the history of the ongoing torture allegations in Sri Lanka and the so-called "internment camps" where roughly 300,000 refugees of the recent conflict linger. Abeysekera says, "Forget the torture; just overcrowding, lack of access to medical attention, and then including on top of that the beatings and the waterboarding. You know, you name it, we hear stories about it." BioSunila Abeysekera is the Executive Director of INFORM, an organization working to inform the world about human rights violations in Sri Lanka. The major themes of Sunila Abeysekera's work include issues of equality and difference in understanding women's human rights, problems of re-conceptualising the nation-state and principles of good governance from a feminist perspective; problems of representation of women in art and culture; and feminist film criticism. In 1998, Abeysekera was honoured by the United Nations for her contribution to the protection and promotion of human rights along with Jimmy Carter. Comments from Registered Members | (Register or log in to make your comment.) | Stendhal 2009-06-18
perhaps the lives of +300k tamils is incidental to most americans. i hope not. i live in the uk. the uk denies its past. british colonialism is largely responsible for the plight of the tamils. yesterday, an acquaintance of mine (tamil, unaware of my historical knowledge) spoke of his support, of many tamils', for the LTTE; he likened it to me sticking a knife in his face – should i expect him not to strike me a blow in return, or in self defence? yet the british foreign minister, when he reluctantly speaks of this, continually refers to the LTTE as terrorists & does nothing to help persecuted tamils. disgraceful. | kestrel9 2009-06-13
thank you for the informative video. Is there a reason why you have to call this "women's take?".. that is sexist and outdated at this point. Give women more air time and don't come up with silly names for the shows please. |
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