#sri-lanka

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অন্তর্বর্তী সরকার গঠনে ত্রুটি থাকলে প্রশ্ন তোলা যাবে না

অন্তর্বর্তী সরকারের মেয়াদ হবে ত্রয়োদশ জাতীয় সংসদ গঠিত হওয়ার পর নতুন প্রধানমন্ত্রী দায়িত্ব নেওয়ার দিন পর্যন্ত। আর অন্তর্বর্তী সরকার গঠন, সরকারের প্রধান উপদেষ্টা বা কোনো উপদেষ্টার নিয়োগে কোনো ত্রুটি থাকলে শুধু এ কারণে তাঁদের কোনো কাজ অবৈধ হবে না। এ সম্পর্কে কোনো আদালতে কোনো প্রশ্নও তোলা যাবে না। এমনকি মামলা করা যাবে না। এমন বিধান রেখে চূড়ান্ত করা হয়েছে অন্তর্বর্তী সরকার অধ্যাদেশের খসড়া।…

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People & countries mentioned in the thread:

DR Congo - M23, Cobalt

Darfur, Sudan - International Criminal Court, CNN, BBC (Overview); Twitter Explanation on Sudan

Tigray - Human Rights Watch (Ethnic Cleansing Report)

the Sámi people - IWGIA, Euronews

Hawai'i - IWGIA

Syria - Amnesty International

Kashmir- Amnesty Summary (PDF), Wikipedia (Jammu and Kashmir), Human Rights Watch (2022)

Iran - Human Rights Watch, Morality Police (Mahsa/Jina Amini - Al Jazeera, Wikipedia)

Uyghurs - Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) Q&A, Wikipedia, Al Jazeera, UN Report

Tibetans - SaveTibet.org, United Nations

Yazidi people - Wikipedia, United Nations

West Papua - Free West Papua, Genocide Watch

Yemen - Human Rights Watch (Saudi border guards kill migrants), Carrd

Sri Lanka (Tamils) - Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch

Afghans in Pakistan - Al Jazeera, NPR

Ongoing Edits: more from the notes / me

Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh/Azerbaijan (Artsakh) - Global Conflict Tracker ("Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict"), Council on Foreign Relations, Human Rights Watch (Azerbaijan overview), Armenian Food Bank

Baháʼís in Iran - Bahá'í International Community, Amnesty, Wikipedia, Minority Rights Group International

Kafala System in the Middle East - Council on Foreign Relations, Migrant Rights

Rohingya - Human Rights Watch, UNHCR, Al Jazeera, UNICEF

Montagnards (Vietnam Highlands) - World Without Genocide, Montagnard Human Rights Organization (MHRO), VOA News

Ukraine - Human Rights Watch (April 2022), Support Ukraine Now (SUN), Ukraine Website, Schools & Education (HRW), Dnieper River advancement (Nov. 15, 2023 - Ap News)

Reblogs with Links / From Others

Indigenous Ppl of Canada, Cambodia, Mexico, Colombia

Libya

Armenia Reblog 1, Armenia Reblog 2

Armenia, Ukraine, Central African Republic, Indigenous Americans, Black ppl (US)

Rohingya (Myanmar)

More Hawai'i Links from @sageisnazty - Ka Lahui Hawaii, Nation of Hawai'i on Soverignty, Rejected Apology Resolution

From @rodeodeparis: Assyrian Policy Institute, Free Yezidi

From @is-this-a-cool-url: North American Manipur Tribal Association (NAMTA)

From @dougielombax & compiled by @azhdakha: Assyrians & Yazidis

West Sahara conflict

Last Updated: Feb. 19th, 2024 (If I missed smth before this, feel free to @ me to add it)

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Sri Lanka Weevil (Myllocerus undecimpustulatus)

May 12, 2024

Palma Sola Botanical Park, Bradenton, Florida

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sinhala miku! she's wearing a kandyan osari here, which is typically seen as the more traditional/old fashioned way to drape

bonus neighbourhood uncle miku <3

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Elephant in Yala, Sri Lanka

Photographed by Thilina Kaluthotage 

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13.12.2023 | Beautiful flowers in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. We will come back!

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The ornate foot jewellery of a Hindu bride in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), ca. 1885

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palinda kannangara architects, sri lanka

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Batik

Sri Lanka

foto cjmn

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Well, I’m on my way to Sri Lanka, time to make my luggage distinguishable.

[bd442]

ভোটের অধিকার নিশ্চিত হলে কোনো দল নিষিদ্ধ করার দায়ভার রাষ্ট্রকে বহন করতে হবে না: তারেক রহমান

জনগণের আদালত এবং রাষ্ট্রীয় আদালত—  দুটিকে কার্যকর করা গেলেই রাষ্ট্র ও রাজনীতির উল্লেখযোগ্য গুণগত সংস্কার নিশ্চিত হবে বলে মনে করেন বিএনপির ভারপ্রাপ্ত চেয়ারম্যান তারেক রহমান। তিনি বলেছেন, জনগণের ভোটের অধিক���র নিশ্চিত করা গেলে কোনো রাজনৈতিক দল বা ব্যক্তিকে নিষিদ্ধ কিংবা প্রসিদ্ধ করার মতো অপ্রিয় কাজের দায়ভার রাষ্ট্রকে বহন করতে হবে না। বরং জনগণ নিজের ভোটের অধিকার প্রয়োগের মাধ্যমে খুনি, লুটেরা,…

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Carved ivory sword/dagger hilt, Sri Lanka, 15th century

from The Victoria & Albert Museum

[hussyknee]

THE LEFTIST THIRD PARTY HAS WON SRI LANKA'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

WE HAVE A PRO-LGBT, PRO-UNION, ANTI-ETHNOFASCIST, ANTI-IMPERIALIST PRESIDENT. MY ANTHROPOLOGY PROFESSOR IS GOING TO BE PRIME MINISTER. A COMPETENT ACADEMIC WHO HAS WORKED ON FEMINIST INITIATIVES AND RESEARCH ALL HER CAREER.

please please please please god don't let them fuck this up don't let them turn into a bunch of cunts to retain their new voter base don't let them fuck up the economy don't let them let the minorities down please please please they won't ever get another chance if they ruin this one we'll be stuck with more idiot corrupt nepo babies till we die please please please PLEASE LET THIS BE THE END OF THE EXECUTIVE PRESIDENCY AND PREVENTION OF TERRORISM ACT AND PERSECUTING THE NORTH please please please let them decriminalize being gay and not bury LGBT rights please please please let there be a god I can't take anymore of this shitshow please please please don't let hope be something that keeps pissing in our faces please please please please please please please

ANURA KUMARA DISSANAYAKE WILL BE THE NINTH PRESIDENT OF SRI LANKA. TAKE THAT YOU TWO PARTY VOTING MOTHERFUCKERS.

Edit:

WHAT DO YOU MEAN FUCKING COLOMBO WENT TO THE IDIOT NEPO BABY???

AKD HAD 52%!!!!! HE WAS ALL BUT SWORN IN?????

THEY HAVE TO COUNT THE SECOND PREFERENTIAL VOTE FOR ONLY THE SECOND TIME IN HISTORY??

There is a very real chance that nobody will get over 50% of the vote. That would be really, really bad.

Fuck.

I HATE YOU MOTHERFUCKING URBAN MIDDLE CLASS LIBERAL CUNTS SO MUCH. PLAGUE ON THE WHOLE DAMN COUNTRY. FUCK YOU.

Edit 2:

Ok so first counting gets AKD 42% and SP 32%. It's very likely the preferentional vote will put him over the 50% line.

It's so poetic that Ranil's greed for power ended up handing the country to the very Marxists that his uncle hunted like animals. You love to see it. 🥰

Edit 3:

So the preferential vote didn't give anyone a 50% majority and we're still at AKD 42% and SP 32%. But apparently that's enough to declare AKD President as per the Constitution. I don't think that's ever happened before. He was sworn in an hour ago.

Point of clarification: The NPP are not Marxists. Foreign news is just uncritically regurgitating the pro-government Red Scare propaganda. AKD and his JVP party used to be Marxists back in the '80s and '90s. They're now more very pro-union socialist. The NPP is their coalition, which is even more mildly social democrat and just happens to be a little more left than the other two. Calling them a Marxist is like how MAGA thinks the Dems are commies. 😂

I truly don't have great hopes that much will change, but there's a chance one or two important things might. Which is more than we've been able to hope for in decades.

See this post for a run down of the what's really been happening.

Edit 4:

I retract the "openly bisexual" part with many apologies. I completely misremembered. It wasn't AKD but JVP senior K. D. Lalkantha, who said in a 2018 interview is that he has also had same sex encounters with his friends as a boy and young man, and that he knows others who have had as well. And he specifically said he doesn't see the need to maintain a label for his sexuality. Still, the fact that his party allowed this in a country that still criminalises homosexuality, to a Sinhalese magazine, speaks to a commitment to LGBT rights. He also explicitly stated his support for women's rights, trans rights, polyamory, open relationships, explicit sexuality in media. It's impressively progressive for this country. The interview is in Sinhala and you can read it here.

Here's an excellent write-up of AKD's career, political outlook and creation of NPP in The Hindu by correspondent Meena Srinivasan, a journalist whose reporting I've always liked.

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The fact that tumblr doesn't know about this bird is a tragedy that I have to fix

this is a Sri Lankan frogmouth, you can hear them pretty often at night and I've seen at least one in the wild. Every single picture of them is iconic

Their eyes are so human

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